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Subject(s)

• Ethnology—Latin America—Case studies [Browse]
• Ethnology—Caribbean Area—Case studies [Browse]
• Latin America—Social conditions—Case studies [Browse]
• Caribbean Area—Social conditions—Case studies [Browse]

Editor

• Medeiros, Melanie A. [Browse]
• Guzmán, Jennifer R. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Case studies [Browse]

Summary note

"Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean offers a compelling introduction to the region by providing a series of ethnographic case studies that examine the most pressing issues communities are facing today. These case studies address key topics such as inequities during COVID-19 and Zika, anti-Black racism, resistance against extractive industries, migration and transnational families, revitalization of Indigenous languages, art, and solidarity in the wake of political violence, resilience in the face of climate change, and recent political organizing and social movements. Designed for courses in a variety of disciplines, this expansive volume is organized in thematic sections, with introductions that draw important connections between chapters. The first section provides essential background on ethnography, archaeology, and history, while chapters in the following sections center local perspectives, strategies, and voices. Each chapter ends with reflection and discussion questions, key concepts with definitions, and resources to explore further. Presenting a snapshot of life during the early decades of the twenty-first century, Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean illuminates the structural forces and human agency that are determining the future of the region and the world."-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: Section One An Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean
• 1. Using Ethnography to Learn about Latin America and the Caribbean / Jennifer R. Guzman
• 2. Old New World: An Archaeological Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean / James J. Aimers
• 3. Check Your Narratives: Essentials for Understanding Latin American and Caribbean History, 1400
• Present / Ryan M. Jones
• Section Two Race, Racialization, and Racism
• 4. Raciality and Belonging in Cuban Tourism / L. Kaifa Roland
• 5. Protecting White Comfort and White Supremacy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Jennifer Roth-Gordon
• 6. The "Paradoxical" Persistence of Haitian Vodou after the Cholera Epidemic / Guilberly Louissaint
• Section Three Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Belonging
• 7. Language and the Emplacement of Indigenous Citizenship in Peru / Sandhya Krittika Narayanan
• 8. Post-Multicultural Anxieties? Trajectories of Indigenous Citizenship in La Guajira, Colombia / Pablo Jaramillo
• 9. A Panamanian of West Indian Descent: An Autoethnographic Study of Citizenship and Belonging / Laverne M. Seales Soley
• Section Four Gender and Intersectionality
• 10. The Racial Politics of Queer, Urban, Second-Generation Indigenous Lima Locals / Diego Arispe-Bazan
• 11. Racialized Geographies and the "War on Drugs": Gender Violence, Militarization, and the Criminalization of Indigenous Women in Mexico / Rosalva Aida Hernandez Castillo
• 12. After the Mosquito: Caring for Children with Congenital Zika Syndrome in Bahia, Brazil / K. Eliza Williamson
• Section Five Language in Society
• 13. Rap Originario and Language Revitalization in Southern Mexico: The ADN Maya Collective / Josep Cru
• 14. Kreyol in Cuba: Writing Resistance, Affirming Haitian Heritage / Mariana F. Past
• 15. Linguistic Bias or a Chance to Get Ahead: Linguistic Repertoires in Aruban and Curacaoan Schools / Keisha Wiel
• Section Six Politics and Power / Karleen Jones West
• 16. Congressional Candidates and Political Campaigns in Clientelist Systems: Condoms and Concrete in Oaxaca, Mexico / Karleen Jones West
• 17. NGOs as "Necessary Evils": Challenges of Doing Good in Urban Northeast Brazil / Luminita-Anda Mandache
• 18. The Role of Masculinity in Connecting Knowledge and Politics: Pension Experts in Chile / Maria J. Azocar
• 19. Indigenous Governance and Legal Pluralism: Constitutional Reform and Political Conflict in Bolivia / Matthew Doyle
• Section Seven Political Violence and Its Legacies
• 20. Violence and the Ethnographic Turn in Contemporary Colombian Art / Esteban Rozo
• 21. Film Reception and Audience Ethnography: Charting Local Imaginaries of Violence in Contemporary Argentina and Colombia / Cecilia Sosa
• 22. Cementerio XXX: The Desaparecidos of "Post-Conflict" Guatemala / Sarah Maya Rosen
• 23. A Crack in the Wall: Ethnography as Solidarity with Indigenous Political Prisoners in Oaxaca, Mexico / Bruno Renero-Hannan
• Section Eight Poverty, Precarity, and Resilience
• 24. Flipping the City: Space and Subjectivity in Sao Paulo, Brazil's Zona Sul Periphery / Charles H. Klein
• 25. Ties that Bind in the Dominican Republic: Buying Food on Credit in Corner Stores / Christine Hippert
• 26. "If It Wasn't for COVID, I Wouldn't Be Married": Disruption, Agency, and Making a Living in Chiapas, Mexico / Katie Nelson
• 27. Music, Movements, and Maria: Narratives of Music in Post-Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico / Melissa Cambero Scott
• Section Nine Development and Sustainability
• 28. Conceptions of Risk and Resettlement in Belenino River Communities in Peru / Sharon Gorenstein Rivera
• 29. Forced Displacement and Indigenous Resettlement Planning in Colombia's Coal Region / Emma Banks
• 30. "No a La Mina": Indigenous Organizations' Rejection of Toxic Mega-Mining in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec / Alessandro Morosin
• Section Ten Tourism and Its Effects
• 31. Structural Racism and Occupational Segregation in the Ecotourism Industry of Northeast Brazil / Tiffany Henriksen
• 32. Between the Edible and the Inedible: Cultural Tourism and Culinary Meaning in the Ecuadorian Amazon / Sarah Rachelle Renkert
• 33. Of Cash and Candy: The Complex Effects of Tourism on the Growth of Maya Children from Yucatan, Mexico / Kristi J. Krumrine
• Section Eleven Migration and Kinship
• 34. Digital Solidarities, Transnational Families, and the Nicaraguan Refugee Crisis in Costa Rica / Caitlin E. Fouratt
• 35. Love, Money, and a Secret Divorce: Patriarchy and Senior Women's Caregiving in Mexican Migration / Nora Haenn
• 36. "I Am Going without Knowing the History of My People": Young People's Engagement with the Past, Present, and Future in the Guatemalan Diaspora in Southern Mexico / Malte Gembus.

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ISBN

• 9781487551506
• 9781487547981 ((cloth))
• 1487547986 ((cloth))
• 1487551509 ((paper))

OCLC

1348379463

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