A companion to Latin American anthropology (Blackwell, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Argentina : contagious marginalities / Claudia Briones & Rosana Guber -- Bolivia : bridges and chasms / Rossana Barragán -- Brazil : otherness in context / Mariza Peirano -- Colombia : citizens and anthropologists / Myriam Jimeno -- Ecuador : militants, priests, technocrats, and scholars / Carmen Martínez Novo -- Guatemala : essentialisms and cultural politics / Brigittine M. French -- Mexico : anthropology and the nation-state / Salomón Náhmad Sitton -- Peru : from otherness to a sacred diversity / Carlos Ivan Degregori and Pablo Sandoval -- Race in Latin America / Peter Wade -- Language states / Penelope Harvey -- Legalities and illegalities / Mark Goodale -- Borders, sovereignty, and racialization / Ana M. Alonso -- Writing the aftermath : anthropology and "post-conflict" / Isaias Rojas-Perez -- Alterities : kinship and gender / Olivia Harris -- Vinculaciones : pharmaceutical politics and science / Cori Hayden -- Agrarian reform and peasant studies : the Peruvian case / Linda J. Seligmann -- Statistics and anthropology : the Mexican case / Casey Walsh -- Indigenous anthropologies beyond Barbados / Stefano Varese, Guillermo Delgado & Rodolfo L. Meyer -- Afro-Latin American peoples / Jaime Arocha & Adriana Maya -- Reconceptualizing Latin America / Lynn Stephen -- Places and academic disputes : the Argentine Gran Chaco / Gastón Gordillo -- Disengaging anthropology / Alcida Rita Ramos -- On the frontlines : forensic anthropology / Victoria Sanford -- Collaborative anthropologies in transition / Charles R. Hale