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  • Ethnography as Risky Business

    Field Research in Violent and Sensitive Contexts

    by Chris van der Borgh, Ingeborg Denissen, Tessa Diphoorn, Marie Louise Glebbeek, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, Kees Koonings, Dirk Kruijt, Simone Remijnse, Eva van Roekel0, Ariel Sánchez Meertens1, Marc Simon Thomas2, Monique Sonnevelt3, Ralph Sprenkels4, Floortje Toll5, Nikkie Wiegink6, Dennis Rodgers7 ...
    Ethnography as Risky Business: Field Research in Violent and Sensitive Contexts offers a hands-on, critical appraisal of how to approach ethnographic fieldwork on socio-political conflict and collective violence, focusing on the global south. The volume’s contributions are all based on extensive firsthand qualitative social science research conducted in sensitive--and often hazardous--field ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • The Challenge of Legal Pluralism

    Local dispute settlement and the Indian-state relationship in Ecuador

    by Marc Simon Thomas ...
    Series series Cultural Diversity and Law
    Within the Latin American context, legal pluralism is often depicted as a dichotomy between customary law and national law. In addition, the use of customary law alongside national law is frequently portrayed as a vehicle of resistance.This book argues that, because ordinary Indians are not positively biased in favor of customary law per se, a heterogeneity of legal practices can be observed on a ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia

    by Sian Lazar, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a satellite city to the Bolivian capital of La Paz: El Alto, where more than three-quarters of the population identify as indigenous Aymara. For several years, El Alto has been at the heart of resistance to neoliberal market reforms, such as the export ... Read more

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  • Race in Cuba

    Essays on the Revolution and Racial Inequality

    by Esteban Morales Domínguez, Gary Prevost, August Nimtz ...
    As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian society. But Morales Domínguez, an Afro-Cuban, knew that the complicated question of race could not be ignored, or simply willed away in a post ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Blood of Guatemala

    A History of Race and Nation

    by Greg Grandin, Walter D. Mignolo, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Irene Silverblatt ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The Blood of Guatemala Greg Grandin locates the origins of this ethnic resurgence within the social ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Kuxlejal Politics

    Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities

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    Over the past two decades, Zapatista indigenous community members have asserted their autonomy and self-determination by using everyday practices as part of their struggle for lekil kuxlejal, a dignified collective life connected to a specific territory. This in-depth ethnography summarizes Mariana Mora’s more than ten years of extended research and solidarity work in Chiapas, with Tseltal and ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Pigmentocracies

    Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America

    by Edward Telles ...
    Pigmentocracies — the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) — is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America’s most populous nations. Based on extensive, original sociological and anthropological data generated by PERLA, this landmark study analyzes ethnoracial ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy

    Participation, Politics, and Culture under Chávez

    Edited by David Smilde, Daniel Hellinger ...
    Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy brings together a variety of perspectives on participation and democracy in Venezuela. An interdisciplinary group of contributors focuses on the everyday lives of Venezuelans, examining the forms of participation that have emerged in communal councils, cultural activities, blogs, community media, and several other forums. The essays validate many of the critiques ... Read more

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  • Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence

    by Eduardo P. Archetti, Ann S. Blum, Alejandra Bronfman, Arlene J. Díaz, Lessie Jo Frazier, William E. French, James N. Green, Cymene Howe, David S. Parker0, Pablo Piccato1, Lara E. Putnam2, Wendy A. Vogt3, Erica M. Windler4 ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Featuring the original primary research of a number of leading scholars, this innovative volume integrates gender and sexuality into the main currents of historical interpretation concerning Latin America. The book argues that gender and sexuality-rather than simply supplementing existing explanations of political, social, cultural, and economic phenomena-are central to understanding these ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Spectacular City

    Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia

    by Daniel M. Goldstein, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Since the Bolivian revolution in 1952, migrants have come to the city of Cochabamba, seeking opportunity and relief from rural poverty. They have settled in barrios on the city’s outskirts only to find that the rights of citizens—basic rights of property and security, especially protection from crime—are not available to them. In this ethnography, Daniel M. Goldstein considers the significance of ... Read more

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  • Cuba's Racial Crucible

    The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750–2000

    by Karen Y. Morrison ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    This prize-winning study examines the historical interplay of racial identity, nationality, and family formation in Cuba from the 18th century to today.Since the 19th century, there have been two opposing perspectives on Cuban racial identity: one that frames Cubans as white, and one that sees them as racially mixed based on acceptance of African descent. For the past two centuries, these ... Read more

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  • Race in Another America

    The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil

    by Edward E. Telles ...
    This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key similarities to that of the United States. Brazilians have commonly compared themselves with North Americans, and have traditionally argued that ... Read more

    $29.99 USD