Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Economías inflamables en tiempos de COVID‐19: La reventa de gasolina en la frontera de Venezuela–Brasil17
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Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race. Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru. María ElenaGarcía. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. 291 pp.7
“Çété méné endan Lalwizyann”: The role of Haiti in representations of Louisiana Creole language and identity7
On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise: Affect, Tourism, Belize. KennethLittle. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2020. 190 pp.5
Commentary on “Explosiveness”: A sudden longue durée5
Voices in a Sea of History: Why Study Language in the Caribbean4
Decolonizing education through Ayuuk indigenous praxis: Three visions from Oaxaca, Mexico4
Settling environmental citizenship: The presentation of self in conservation encounters3
Extractivism's limits: A conversation3
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How the Guatemalan civil war became a genocide: Revisiting the 2013 trial of General Efraín Ríos Montt3
Transit as racialized space: Comparing perceptions of refugees along the Mexico–Guatemala border3
Sex trafficking by consent? Andean padrinazgo, illegal mining in Amazonia, and state intervention3
LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua: Revolution, Dictatorship and Social Movements by KarenKampwirth. University of Arizona Press, 2022. 361 pp.2
Shamanic alliance in the touristic borderzone: Strategic hospitality at Surama Eco‐Lodge in Guyana2
Reconceptualizing the Haitian Migration System in the Caribbean Basin: A Spatial Approach to Multi‐local Fields2
Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin AmericaAna Y.Ramos‐Zayas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. 193 pp.2
Response to commentaries on ‘Recalcitrance: The foreclosure of news about violence in Mexico’2
Cuerpos de cobre: Extractivismo en Chuquicamata, Chile2
Surviving the Americas: Garifuna Persistence from Nicaragua to New York City. Serena Cosgrove, José Idiáquez, Leonard Joseph Bent, and Andrew Gorvetzian. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Pr2
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Comentario sobre el Gamonalismo: Herencias, tensiones y resignificaciones1
Trends, Trendsetting, and Shifting Trends in Caribbean Anthropology1
¡Qué mamada! (What a Joke!): Humor, Hostility, and Hospitality along the Central American Migrant Trail1
Bolivar's Sword: The Mapoyo and the Politics of Heritage‐Making in Venezuela1
Memories before the state: Postwar Peru and the place of memory, tolerance and social inclusion By Joseph P.Feldman. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2021. 198 pp.1
Un estallido animal: Animalización y antropomorfización en el conflicto político chileno1
Blackness, linguistic nationalism, and postcolonial class inequality in Haiti1
Resocializing recordings: Collaborative archiving and curating of sound as an agent of knowledge transfer1
Anti‐Haitianism and Statelessness in the Caribbean1
From Local Community Studies to Migration Research or: When Does Caribbean(ist) Anthropology Cease to be Caribbean?1
“I am going to break this logic of fear!”: Activism and subversive care at the periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil1
Multiple territorialities and the shifting conservation frontiers of Patagonia1
“They study for six years. We study for generations”: Renegotiating birth, power, and interculturalidad in the Ecuadorian Amazon1
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Latin American Social Medicine in Colombia: Violence, neoliberalism, and Buen Vivir1
Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America. BjørnSletto, JoeBryan, AlfredoWagner, and CharlesHale, eds. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2020. 242 pp.1
Archives, repatriation, agency, and changing circumstances: Reflections on shared soundscapes, collaborative activations, and repatriations in Latin America1
“A marriage without fidelity is a house without a foundation”: Black Brazilian women's demands for respect in marriage1
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The Many Lives of a Journal1
Comentario sobre “Explosiveness”1
Defensa comunitaria y culturas del terror: Crimen organizado y violencia de Estado en comunidades originarias de Guerrero, México1
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Three ways to fail: Journeys through Mapuche Chile By MagnusCourse, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2024. 184 pp.0
Dangerous winds: Criminal threats and the indigenized security of wind power in Colombia0
Engendering “Illegality”: Blackness, citizenship, and Dominico‐Haitian motherhood0
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Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer. FernandoSantos‐Granero. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018. 285 pp.0
Comentario sobre ‘Recalcitrance: The Foreclosure of News about Violence in Mexico’0
Elusive coral and fish: Reconsidering the shore‐offshore separation in Caribbean archipelagos0
Delivering Health: Midwifery and Development in Mexico. Lydia Z. Dixon. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020. 224 pp.0
Los Haitianos, las caravanas and transborder racial affect: Emotions and triangulated representations of Caribbean and Central American migrants in Mexico0
The making of a conservation frontier: Nation‐building, green productivism, and environmentalism in Patagonia0
Traidores a la patria: Reconfiguring the nation through (un)patriotic discourse in the Dominican Republic0
Everyday Adjustments in Havana: Economic Reforms, Mobility, and Emerging Inequalities. HopeBastian. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. 182 pp.0
Indigenous Divergences from the Sacrifice Zones and Rehabilitations of Extractivism When the Hills are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community. ThomasPearson. Minneapolis: University of 0
Explosiveness: Territories of war and technoscientific practices in Colombia0
Repensar el gamonalismo: Habitus, resignificaciones y rupturas0
Deforesting the forest: Territory and relations in the Argentinean Chaco0
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Beyond Repair: Rethinking the Future in the Caribbean0
Indigenous Modernities in South America. ErnstHalbmayer (Ed). Herefordshire, UK: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2018. 246 pp.0
Strengths and Hopes for the Future: Ideas from a Long‐Time Caribbeanist0
Yajé como política. Territorio, petróleo y pandemia en los siekopái de la Amazonía ecuatoriana0
Blessed Beats: Religious Profanation and Evangelical Syncretization fromSambatoCarnaval Gospel0
Nurturing the Other: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in AmazoniaVanessaGrotti. Berghahn Books, 2022. 212 pp.0
Shared soundscapes: The (re)activation of an institutional and individual archive of Peruvian music and dance0
Para aprender a viajar así: Movilidad en la vida de una mujer quechua By Michael D.Hill and GeorginaMaldonado. Quito: Universidad San Francisco de Quito Press / Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 20
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti. VincentJoos. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 240 pp.0
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Caribbean Anthropology: Challenges and Opportunities0
Bite Yu Finga!: Innovating Belizean Cuisine. Lyra H.Spang. Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2019. 274 pp.0
Cuidando la Patagonia Azul: Prácticas y estrategias de los pueblos originarios para curar las zonas marinas del sur de Chile0
Ethnography In‐Sight and Sound: Aural Politics and Haitian Mobile Vendors in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic0
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La captura del viento: Energía eólica y la política de la renta en el Istmo de Tehuantepec, México0
  Ethnography In‐Sight: Nation‐Making Objects0
Ethnography In‐Sight: Muñecas negras—Una oportunidad de redescubrirse0
The Promise of Affect and the Enduring Economy of Emotions in Caribbeanist Anthropology0
Frontier politics at the world's end0
Imágenes de la muerte y necropolítica de la dictadura en Chile0
Populist infrastructures: The aesthetics and semiotics of how obras do politics in Lima, Peru0
Regenerating Maya‐Mam ways of governing, Indigenous emancipatory politics in the age of the extractive imperative0
The Power of Phenotype: Toward an Ethnography of Pigmentocracy in Andean Bolivia0
Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip‐Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico. Maurice RafaelMagaña. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2020. 206 pp.0
Favela Studies: Disrupting Higher Education and Research on Brazil's Urban Periphery0
Recalcitrance: The foreclosure of news about violence in Mexico0
Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power and Labor in Contemporary Yucatán. Matilde Córdoba Azcárate. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2020. 316 pp.0
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Ethnography In‐Sight: Spiraling through Fieldwork0
Los precios de las esmeraldas colombianas: Formas parasitarias de habitar la formalización minera en Colombia0
The Caribbean: Following Connections instead of Fitting Things in Boxes0
The Living Inca Town: Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes. KarolineGuelke. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 204 pp.0
Contramedidas en Cabo Pulmo: La ciencia y la judicialización de conflictos ambientales en México0
Global ideals and restorative extraction: Negotiated Indigeneity on the margins of a Peruvian copper mine0
At a crossroads: Historicizing encounters with new racializations in the Central American and Mexican migratory landscape0
Brand JAMAICA: Reimagining a National Image and Identity. Hume Johnson and Kamille Gentles‐Peart, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. 214 pp.0
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Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad. N. FadekeCastor. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. 228 pp.0
Qualifying Violence: Visible Data, Invisible Lives in Recife, Brazil0
Caribbeanist Anthropology and Minerva's Owl: Lessons Forgotten, Lessons Learned0
Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad. J.Brent Crosson.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.328 pp.0
En tránsito por el norte de Chile: Desplazamiento forzado de población venezolana bajo el control fronterizo y sanitario durante la pandemia por COVID‐19 (2020‐2021)0
Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal. HannaGarth, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2020. 214 pp.0
Ethnography in‐sight: Amasonic politics10
The afterlives of political violence in Argentina: The gendered body and everyday cruelty0
El desvanecimiento de lo popular: gentrificación en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México. VicenteMoctezuma Mendoza. Mexico City: El Colegio de México/Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superio0
Downtown Juárez: Underworlds of Violence and Abuse. HowardCampbell. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 362 pp.0
Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals. Vania Smith‐Oka. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2021. 228 pp.0
Anthropologies of Our Caribbean Sea of (Is)lands0
Moral Panics, Viral Subjects: Black Women's Bodies on the Line during Cuba's 2020 Pandemic Lockdowns0
The Last Out.A film by MichaelGassert, SamiKhan (Eds.), Tragon Productions and Oscura Film Inc. 2020. 90 minutes. Color0
Living the popular solidarity economy as an entrepreneurial bureaucrat: Creating and reinforcing ethical frameworks through middle‐class consumption0
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Child circulation in disaster contexts: The case of the 2010 Haiti earthquake0
Fernando Ortiz's Transculturation: Applied Anthropology, Acculturation, and Mestizaje0
Problems with hierarchy and problems with tradition: The critique of male power in Afro‐Brazilian capoeira0
Swap It on WhatsApp: The Moral Economy of Informal Online Exchange Networks in Contemporary Cuba0
Maps’ agency and mountains’ multiplicity: Conflicts triggered by state maps involving pilgrims and desired mining futures in the Andes0
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Universos chibchas: Nuevas aproximaciones a la unidad y la diversidad humana del área istmocolombiana. Editado por Juan Camilo NiñoVargas y StephenBeckerman, Colombia: Ediciones Uniandes. 2024. 375 pp0
Jumping on the Bus0
Cenizas By CynthiaGuardado. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press. 2022. 67 pp.0
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Carving Space and Time. Interruptions and (Un)Predictability in Infrastructural Design of Emeralds and the Mining Formalization in Colombia0
Genres of listening: An ethnography of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires By XochitlMarsilli‐Vargas, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2022. 233 pp.0
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Masculinity's (mis)fortune: Historicizing affect as extractivist infrastructure in Bolivian sodalite mining0
Communities make communities: Comunidades nativas and gold mining among the Arakbut of Peruvian Amazonia0
Rituals and Sisterhoods: Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750. Amos Megged. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2019. 301 pp.0
Ethnography In‐Sight and Sound: Rasanblaj and the Poetics of Creole Orality0
Cultures of power and politics: Two cases of the limits of anti‐essentialism in the political anthropology of lowland South America0
Identifying Indigenous people: Visual appearance, filiation, and the experience of race in an “Indigenous” soccer championship and in everyday life in Otavalo, Ecuador0
Ensayos de etnografía teórica: Andes. Colección EntreGiros, vol. 2. Óscar MuñozMorán (coord.). Madrid: Nola Editores, 2020. 407 pp.0
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Loss and Wonder at the World's EndLaura A.Ogden. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. 200 pp.0
Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil. Marie‐EveCarrier‐Moisan, WilliamFlynn, and DeboraSantos. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 200 pp.0
Estado, políticas públicas y comunidades: Aportes para repensar la antropología del Estado desde América Latina0
Cannibalistic exchanges with mountain‐ancestors: Moral economies of gold mining in northern Peru0
What the Caribbean Teaches Us: The Afterlives and New Lives of Coloniality0
The Elusive Caribbean0
Guarded by Two Jaguars: A Catholic Parish Divided by Language and FaithBy EricHoenes del Pinal. Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press. 2022. 257 pp.0
A Commentary on the Inclusion of the Dutch Caribbean within Caribbean Anthropological Studies0
“The pandemic came to teach us how to eat”: COVID‐19, mutual vulnerability, and native corn in Oaxaca0
Editors’ introduction to Sound “Repatriation” in South America: The Politics of Collaborative Archive Reactivations0
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Obeah, Orisa & Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I ObeahTracey E.Hucks. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. 262 pp.0
Narco‐spectrality: Narco‐aesthetics and hauntings in the short filmPánico en Pánuco0
Ethnography In‐Sight: The Elevated City0
After the Decolonial. Ethnicity, Gender and Social Justice in Latin America. DavidLehmann. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022. 252 pp.0
Making Music Indigenous: Popular Music in the Peruvian Andes. JoshuaTucker. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. 279 pp.0
Racialized and moral‐religious politics of migrant acompañamiento: Informal hosting as local care entrepreneurship along migration routes0
The Tyranny of Narco‐Power: Political Rule and Austere Domination in Michoacán, Mexico0
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Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender and Golf in Mexico. HugoCerón‐Anaya. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 217 pp.0
Ecotourism, infrastructures, and the drama of sovereignty on a border island0
Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica. Jovan Scott Lewis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 236 pp.0
Framing the allopathic approach to health and disease labels through patient narratives during the COVID‐19 pandemic first wave in Ecuador: An understudied and underutilized tool in health care practi0
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The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia. TeoBallvé. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 228 pp.0
Comentario al gamonalismo0
Race, Nation, and Diaspora in the Southern Caribbean: Unsettling the Ethnic Conflict Model0
Feral Animals, Rastrojo, and Dispossession: Images of the Afterlives of War in Bajo Atrato, Colombia0
Paint It Black or Red: Serious Play in Brazil's Northeast0
Embodying dependency: Caribbean godna (tattoos) as female subordination and resistance0
Entre el Atlántico y el Pacífico Negro: Afrodescendencia y Regímenes de Desigualdad en Sudamérica. Edited by ManuelGóngora Mera, RocíoVera Santos, SérgioCosta. Madrid: Iberoamericana‐Vervuert, 2019. 60
In the shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster politics in highland Ecuador By A. J.Faas, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2023. 246 pp.0
Commentary on Gamonalismo0
Producing ethical water: Anti‐mining activism and conflicts over municipal water provisioning in Cuenca, Ecuador0
Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras By Jon HorneCarter. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2022. pp. 3750
Pobrecitos: Determinations of deservingness in the Costa Rican asylum process0
Unsettling extractivism: Indigeneity, race, and disruptive emplacements0
Competing Power: Landscapes of Migration, Violence, and the State. NarmalaHalstead. New York: Berghann Books, 2019. 256 pp.0
Coastal Lives: Nature, Capital, and the Struggle for Artisanal Fisheries in Peru. MaximilianViatori and HéctorBombiella. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2019. 232 pp.0
The dispute for other legal knowledges in the judicial field: Indigenous territorial ontologies and mining extractivism in Guerrero, Mexico0
Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic. AmyMoran‐Thomas. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. 376 pp.0
Truth and reparations: A perpetual challenge for the marginalized in Peru0
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“Playing with the Bull”: Breeding, Blood, and Ritual in Multispecies Ethnography of Peruvian Bullfighting0
Commentary on “Explosiveness”0
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Política estatal en territorio indígena: Los negocios étnicos turísticos (NET) en San Pedro de Atacama, Norte de Chile0
“En Bolivia lo hacen andar”: Régimen de mantenimiento, dimensión emotiva y prácticas de renovación vehicular del transporte colectivo de La Paz0
Discerning networks: Distortions of human movement in Urabá, Colombia0
Kinship by Coincidence: Episodes of arrival in travesti and transfeminine migration across Amazonian Peru0
Comentario sobre ‘Recalcitrance: The Foreclosure of News about Violence in Mexico’0
Latent Blackness: Afro‐Brazilian People, History, and Culture in São Paulo, Brazil0
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Porousness, theater, possession, being consumed, death, sanctity: Narratives from the field with a radical street performer0
Rethinking Zapotec time: Cosmology, ritual, and resistance in colonial Mexico By DavidTavárez, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2022. 458 pp.0
Beyond the Idea of the Caribbean: Engaged Anthropology and the Transatlantic Caribbean0
Engineering vulnerability: In pursuit of climate adaptation By Sarah E.Vaughn, Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 272 pp.0
Response to commentaries to explosiveness: Territories of war and technoscientific practice in Colombia0
On the Lack of Domestic Dogs in Pre‐Columbian Lowland Amazonia and Their Deep History of Entanglements With Humans in South America0
Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia. SusanEllison. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 281 pp.0
UndocumentsJohn‐MichaelRivera. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2021. 301 pp.0
Narco‐Infrastructures and the Persistence of Illicit Coca in Loreto0
Unsettling the return: Alternative curation and counterarchives0
Marginados y postergados en la obra de Fernando Ortiz0
Colombian utopia and anti‐utopia: Remembering and reconsidering the FARC's Zona de Despeje, 1998–20020
Commentary on “Explosiveness”: Transnational retazos and reverberations0
Between conservation and care: Ontological mixtures and juxtapositions in protected areas of Patagonia, Argentina0
Undocumented motherhood: Conversations on love, trauma and border crossing By ElizabethFarfán‐Santos, Austin: University of Texas Press. 2022. 129 pp.0
From Banana Zones to the Big Easy: West Indian and Central American Immigration to New Orleans, 1910–1940. Glenn A.Chambers. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. 199 pp.0
Commentary on ‘Recalcitrance: The foreclosure of news about violence in Mexico’0
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Women's Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology By Florence E.BabbBerkeley: University of California Press. 2018. 304 pp.0
The Other's Tongue: Place, Perspective, and the Desire to Speak Portuguese among the People of the Xingu Indigenous Territory0
A Fourth Shift: Women Factory Workers Working the Articulations of Caribbean Capitalism0
Ethnography In‐Sight: Digital Narco Terrorism0
La sombra alargada del patrón: Gamonalismo y hábitos hacendatarios en Chimborazo tras la reforma agraria0
Living ruins: Native engagements with past materialities in contemporary Mesoamérica, Amazonia, and the Andes By PhilippeErikson and ValentinaVapnarsky (Eds.), Louisville, CO: University Press of Colo0
A Future History of Water By AndreaBallestero. Durham: Duke University Press. 2019. 248 pp.0
Saint Martin de Porres “The Black Saint of the Afro‐descendant community in Quito‐Ecuador”: Between segregation, racism, and black resistance0
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