Anthropology, Latin America, and the Caribbean

Abstract

1. ANTHROPOLOGY, LATIN AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN Why Study the Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean? Doing Cultural Anthropology and Documenting Everyday Life Controversies: The Culture of Poverty and Perspectives on the Poor 2. INTRODUCING LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Delimiting and Imagining Latin America: Ideas, Spaces, and Places Countries and Population Migration and Cities Languages Landscapes, Culture and Society Major Landscapes Landscape Transformations Before and After the Europeans Controversies: Is the Culture Area Concept Still Useful? 3. SOCIETY AND CULTURE BEFORE THE EUROPEANS Anthropological Perspectives on the Evolution of Social Complexity Phases in the Emergence of Societal Complexity in Latin America and the Caribbean The Incan and Aztec States Controversies: The Peopling of the Americas 4. CONQUEST, COLONIALISM, AND RESISTANCE The European Conquests The Colonial Period Ethnogenesis Colonial Legacies, Independence, and the Coalescence of Nation-States Controversies: The Quincentennial, or Remembering Columbus 5. CULTURAL POLITICS OF RACE AND ETHNICITY Racial Categories and Racial Fluidity in Latin America Colonialism, Empire, and the Invention of Race Mestizos and Mestizaje: Class, Race, and Nation The Rise of Ethnicity and Ethnic Movements Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Gender Controversies: Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Peoples In the United States: Race and Respect in the Streets of New York City 6. CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY Pre-European Gender Systems The Conquest and Colonial Period Gender and the Consolidation of Nation-States Femininity and Masculinity: Rethinking Marianismo and Machismo Shifting Contours of Masculinity, Femininity, and Sexual Identities Controversies: Gender, Masculinity, and Violence in Amazonian Societies In the United States: Courtship, Sexuality, and Love Across the Border 7. RELIGION AND EVERYDAY LIFE Popular Catholicism The Spread of Protestantism The African Heritage: Candomble, Santeria, and Vodou Controversies: Mesoamerican Civil -Religious Cargo Systems In The United States: Re-Creating Vodou in Brooklyn 8. STRIVING FOR HEALTH AND COPING WITH ILLNESS Medical Anthropology The Poor Health of Latin America and the Caribbean Folk Illnesses: Susto, Mal de Ojo, and Nervios The Expressive and Healthy Body Religion and Healing Controversies: Marijuana and Coca, Health and Politics In The United States: Susto and Mal de Ojo Among Florida Farmworkers 9. FOOD, CUISINE, AND CULTURAL EXPRESSION Food and Culture Historical and Cultural Sketch of Latin American Food Food, Consumption, and Ritual Communicating Gender and Sexuality Through Food Cuisine, Cookbooks, and Nation-Building Controversies: Hot and Cold Foods In the United States: Tamales, Gender, and Survival 10. PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBALIZATION Globalization Tourism, Crafts, and Cultural Authenticity Transnational Production and Labor Global Interests and the Environment Controversies: Global Interests and Ethnographic Representations in the Amazon In The United States: Domestic Workers in the Midst of Affluence 11. MANIFESTATIONS OF POPULAR CULTURE What is Popular Culture? Sports? Carnaval and Popular Celebrations Music and Dance Television and Telenovelas Controversies: Tango and Sexuality In The United States: Quinceaneras, Gender, and Tradition 12. VIOLENCE, MEMORY, AND STRIVING FOR A JUST WORLD Violence and Memory The Central American Civil Wars Chile's Pinochet Argentina's Dirty War Colombia's Violencia Mexico's Zapatista Peru's Shining Path Controversies: Rigoberta Menchu, and the Politics of Memory and Culture In The United States: Fleeing War and Reconstituting New Lives