The Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean
Autor Harry Sanabriaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2005
The text provides wide and historically informed coverage of key facets of Latin American and Caribbean societies and their cultural and historical development as well as the powerful role of power and inequality in this development.
One reviewer writes, “The text moves well and builds over time, paying close attention to balancing both the Caribbean and Latin America as geographic regions, Spanish and non-Spanish speaking countries, and historical and contemporary issues in the field. I found the geographic breadth to be especially impressive.”
Another notes that the contents “reflect the insights of an anthropologist who knows Latin Americaintimately and extensively.”
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780205380992
ISBN-10: 0205380999
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 178 x 232 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Pearson Education (US)
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
ISBN-10: 0205380999
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 178 x 232 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Pearson Education (US)
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
Cuprins
Each chapter ends with a "Summary," "Issues and Questions" and "Key Terms and Concepts."
Preface
Analytical Approach
Strengths and Features
Organization and Themes
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: Candomblé, Santería, 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: Quinceañeras, 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 Menchú, and the Politics of Memory and Culture
In The United States: Fleeing War and Reconstituting New Lives
Preface
Analytical Approach
Strengths and Features
Organization and Themes
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: Candomblé, Santería, 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: Quinceañeras, 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 Menchú, and the Politics of Memory and Culture
In The United States: Fleeing War and Reconstituting New Lives
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Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean By:Harry S. Sanabria (Universityof Pittsburgh)
Overview:
The first single-authored comprehensive introduction to major contemporary research trends, issues, and debates on the anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The text provides wide and historically informed coverage of key facets of Latin American and Caribbean societies and their cultural and historical development as well as the role of power and inequality in this development.
What Reviewers Are Saying:
“The text moves well and builds over time, paying close attention to balancing both the Caribbean and Latin America as geographic regions, Spanish and non-Spanish speaking countries, and historical and contemporary issues in the field. I found the geographic breadth to be especially impressive.”
--Cymene Howe, Cornell University
“[The contents] reflect the insights of an anthropologist who knows Latin America intimately and extensively.”
--Jeffrey V. Mantz, California State University, Stanislaus
"I applaud the author on a holistic approach to the study of Latin America. The various features introduce students to the complexity of this topic and its relevance in their studies. By providing a single-authored, integrated perspective, it serves as an excellent required text for the classroom, allowing the professor to build upon this work with any additional areas of expertise that are brought to the class. In addition, the features “In Their Own Words” and “Controversies” provide a multi-dimensional format that encourages students to see culture as a living and changing force instead of a homogeneous collection of artifacts.”
--Marjorie Snipes, State University of West Georgia
"... The overall strength of the text rests on the excellent choice of subject matter and the synthesis and presentation of research within each area… The topical coverage…, is excellent, and probably, the most compelling reason for me to consider changing my own course to incorporate this text… I am particularly impressed with the excellent synthesis of materials, concepts and examples from Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean…The author has achieved a solid balance between providing a general explanatory framework, and examples of specific cases… The choice of chapter topics (food, popular culture, violence, and the global economy) is refreshing, insightful, and important."
--Anne Woodrick, Northern Iowa University
Overview:
The first single-authored comprehensive introduction to major contemporary research trends, issues, and debates on the anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The text provides wide and historically informed coverage of key facets of Latin American and Caribbean societies and their cultural and historical development as well as the role of power and inequality in this development.
What Reviewers Are Saying:
“The text moves well and builds over time, paying close attention to balancing both the Caribbean and Latin America as geographic regions, Spanish and non-Spanish speaking countries, and historical and contemporary issues in the field. I found the geographic breadth to be especially impressive.”
--Cymene Howe, Cornell University
“[The contents] reflect the insights of an anthropologist who knows Latin America intimately and extensively.”
--Jeffrey V. Mantz, California State University, Stanislaus
"I applaud the author on a holistic approach to the study of Latin America. The various features introduce students to the complexity of this topic and its relevance in their studies. By providing a single-authored, integrated perspective, it serves as an excellent required text for the classroom, allowing the professor to build upon this work with any additional areas of expertise that are brought to the class. In addition, the features “In Their Own Words” and “Controversies” provide a multi-dimensional format that encourages students to see culture as a living and changing force instead of a homogeneous collection of artifacts.”
--Marjorie Snipes, State University of West Georgia
"... The overall strength of the text rests on the excellent choice of subject matter and the synthesis and presentation of research within each area… The topical coverage…, is excellent, and probably, the most compelling reason for me to consider changing my own course to incorporate this text… I am particularly impressed with the excellent synthesis of materials, concepts and examples from Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean…The author has achieved a solid balance between providing a general explanatory framework, and examples of specific cases… The choice of chapter topics (food, popular culture, violence, and the global economy) is refreshing, insightful, and important."
--Anne Woodrick, Northern Iowa University
Caracteristici
- Developed specifically for courses about the Anthropology of Latin America. The target course may also be called Peoples and Cultures of Latin America; Contemporary Latin America; Latin American Societies and Cultures; Introduction to Latin America; or Modern Latin America.
- The parallel organization of each chapter establishes a consistency and expectation on the part of the reader.
- “In Their Own Words” boxes in every chapter give students an appreciation of authentic native views and voices.
- “Controversies” sections in each chapter focus attention on important and contemporary debates within the anthropology of Latin America and allow students the opportunity to reflect on how theoretical and methodological differences lead to varying interpretations and debates.
- “In the United States” sections in every chapter highlight the importance and relevance of Hispanic/Latino culture in the United States.
- An Instructor’s Manual/Test Bank includes a comprehensive list of films and websites compiled by the author.
Notă biografică
Harry Sanabria is Associate Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.