Women&39s Place in the Andes Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology [Hardcover]

InWomen’s Place in the AndesFlorence E. Babb draws on four decades of anthropological research to reexamine the complex interworkings of gender, race, and indigeneity in Peru and beyond.  She deftly interweaves five new analytical chapters with six of her previously published works that exemplify currents in feminist anthropology and activism. Babb argues that decolonizing feminism and engaging more fully with interlocutors from the South will lead to a deeper understanding of the iconic Andean women who are subjects of both national pride and everyday scorn. This book’s novel approach goes on to set forth a collaborative methodology for rethinking gender and race in the Americas.

Florence E. Babb is the Anthony Harrington Distinguished Professor in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories.

“I know of no other similar book. It is engaging, accessible, critically insightful, and from beginning to end, touches on multiple key research areas of great interest to interdisciplinary feminist scholars, anthropologists, and Latin Americanists. It was a pleasure to read.”—M. Cristina Alcalde, author ofPeruvian Lives across Borders: Power, Exclusion, and Home 

 

"What is of particular interest is Florence Babb’s engagement with feminist debates from almost the earliest years of what can be described as a feminist anthropology right through to current debates about decolonial feminism. The scholarship presented here has a unique perspective. I don’t think there is anyone else who has been as involved politically and academically in feminist debates in the Andes from an anthropological perspective and who can write so authoritatively about them."—Andrew Canessa author ofIntimate Indigeneities: Rals+