{"product_id":"a-companion-to-latin-american-anthropology-hardback-9780631234685","title":"A Companion to Latin American Anthropology (Hardback) 9780631234685","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to Latin American Anthropology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"More than an assemblage of essays, Deborah Poole's magisterial volume synthesizes the commitments, conundrums, and complicities that make up the long disciplinary history of Latin American anthropology. Revealing an imposing historical depth and analytical crispness, Poole’s \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Latin American Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e brings together an impressive array of scholars of and from Latin America to illuminate the critical relationship between politics and scholarship, in a region that has been central to anthropology's methodological and moral development.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eGreg Grandin\u003c\/b\u003e, New York University\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDeborah Poole (Edited by), Poole (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631234685, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 April 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e576 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 3.4 cm, 1.134 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"An indispensable reference for all social scientists interested in Latin American regions. Summing Up: Essential.\" (\u003ci\u003eChoice Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, May 2009)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eComprised of 24 newly commissioned chapters, this defining reference volume on Latin America introduces English-language readers to the debates, traditions, and sensibilities that have shaped the study of this diverse region.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eContributors include some of the most prominent figures in Latin American and Latin Americanist anthropology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers previously unpublished work from Latin America scholars that has been translated into English explicitly for this volume\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes overviews of national anthropologies in Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil, and is also topically focused on new research\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws on original ethnographic and archival research\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights national and regional debates\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a vivid sense of how anthropologists often combine intellectual and political work to address the pressing social and cultural issues of Latin America\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeborah Poole\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Locations 9\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Argentina: Contagious Marginalities 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaudia Briones and Rosana Guber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Bolivia: Bridges and Chasms 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRossana Barragán\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Brazil: Otherness in Context 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMariza Peirano\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Colombia: Citizens and Anthropologists 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMyriam Jimeno\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Ecuador: Militants, Priests, Technocrats, and Scholars 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarmen Martínez Novo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Guatemala: Essentialisms and Cultural Politics 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrigittine M. French\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Mexico: Anthropology and the Nation-State 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalomón Nahmad Sittón\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Peru: From Otherness to a Shared Diversity 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarlos Iván Degregori and Pablo Sandoval\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Debates 175\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Race in Latin America 177\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Wade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Language States 193\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePenelope Harvey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Legalities and Illegalities 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Goodale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Borders, Sovereignty, and Racialization 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAna M. Alonso\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Writing the Aftermath: Anthropology and “Post-Conflict” 254\u003cbr\u003eIsaias Rojas Pérez\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Alterities: Kinship and Gender 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOlivia Harris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Vinculaciones: Pharmaceutical Politics and Science 303\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCori Hayden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Agrarian Reform and Peasant Studies: The Peruvian Case 325\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinda J. Seligmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Statistics and Anthropology: The Mexican Case 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCasey Walsh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Positions 373\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Indigenous Anthropologies beyond Barbados 375\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStefano Varese, Guillermo Delgado, and Rodolfo L. 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