A Companion to Latin American Anthropology [Hardcover]

• Contributors include some of the most prominent figures in Latin American and Latin Americanist anthropology
• Offers previously unpublished work from Latin America scholars that has been translated into English explicitly for this volume
• Includes overviews of national anthropologies in Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil, and is also topically focused on new research
• Draws on original ethnographic and archival research
• Highlights national and regional debates
• Provides a vivid sense of how anthropologists often combine intellectual and political work to address the pressing social and cultural issues of Latin America

Notes on Contributors vii

Acknowledgments xiv

Introduction 1
Deborah Poole

Part I: Locations 9

1 Argentina: Contagious Marginalities 11
Claudia Briones and Rosana Guber

2 Bolivia: Bridges and Chasms 32
Rossana Barragán

3 Brazil: Otherness in Context 56
Mariza Peirano

4 Colombia: Citizens and Anthropologists 72
Myriam Jimeno

5 Ecuador: Militants, Priests, Technocrats, and Scholars 90
Carmen Martínez Novo

6 Guatemala: Essentialisms and Cultural Politics 109
Brigittine M. French

7 Mexico: Anthropology and the Nationl£I