Contemporary Cultures and Societies of Latin America
, by Heath, Dwight B.
- ISBN: 9781577661900 | 1577661907
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/1/2001
| Preface | p. vii |
| Latin America: Image and Reality | p. 1 |
| Why Latin America? | p. 7 |
| Constructing Culture and Power in Latin America | p. 12 |
| Anthropology and Human Rights in Latin America | p. 18 |
| Relationships among the World System, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecological Anthropology in the Endangered Amazon | p. 31 |
| A Retrospective View of the Harvard-Chiapas Project | p. 50 |
| The Anthropological Enterprise | p. 63 |
| An Experiment in Cross-Cultural Communications | p. 73 |
| Borders and Boundaries of State and Self at the End of Empire | p. 77 |
| A Handful of Ashes: Reflections on Tristes Tropiques | p. 94 |
| The Contributions of Applied Anthropology to Peasant Development | p. 100 |
| Language Preservation and Publishing | p. 117 |
| Worms, Witchcraft and Wild Incantations: The Case of the Chicken Soup Cure | p. 129 |
| Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans | p. 135 |
| Traditional and Modern Cultures | p. 143 |
| Indigenous Organizations: Rising Actors in Latin America | p. 151 |
| Hit and Run: The Stick-and-Ball Game as an Integral Part of Raramuri Culture | p. 165 |
| Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Field School in "the Other Cancun" | p. 169 |
| Market Vendors vs. Multinationals: David and Goliath Revisited | p. 177 |
| Restructuring Ethnicity in Chiapas and the World | p. 182 |
| Dona Flora and the "Informal Sector" Debate: Entrepreneurial Strategies in a Bolivian Enterprise | p. 189 |
| Changes in Drinking Patterns in Five Bolivian Cultures: A Cautionary Tale about Historical Approaches | p. 203 |
| Ethnodevelopment and the Yuqui of Lowland Bolivia | p. 214 |
| Kuna Molas and the Global Economy | p. 219 |
| Ending Serfdom in Peru: The Struggle for Land and Freedom in Vicos | p. 225 |
| Identity and Ethnicity | p. 245 |
| Jews in Latin America | p. 251 |
| No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latin Americans Today | p. 257 |
| Ethnic Artists and the Appropriation of Fashion: Embroidery and Identity in Caylloma, Peru | p. 266 |
| Gringas, Ghouls and Guatemala: Fear of North American Women and Body-Organ Trafficking | p. 273 |
| Family, Social Insecurity, and the "Underdevelopment" of Gay Institutions in Latin America | p. 284 |
| Abstinence, Antibiotics, and Estar Jurado: The Manners of Drinking in Working-Class Mexico City | p. 294 |
| The Day of the Dead as Mexican National Symbol | p. 303 |
| Body Paint, Feathers, and VCRs: Aesthetics and Authenticity in Amazonian Activism | p. 319 |
| Relations of Power | p. 343 |
| The Dyadic Contract in a Mexican Village | p. 351 |
| Local Government in Bolivia: Public Administration and Popular Participation | p. 366 |
| Touching the Air: The Cultural Force of Women in Chile | p. 372 |
| Women in the Transition to Democracy: Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo | p. 375 |
| Studying Violence: Victims, Perpetrators, and the Ethnographer | p. 384 |
| God Is an American | p. 399 |
| The Culture of Poverty | p. 408 |
| The Aristocracy in Modern Mexico | p. 418 |
| Aspects of Group Relations in a Complex Society: Mexico | p. 434 |
| Views of the World | p. 447 |
| When 1 + 1 [not equal] 2: Making Mathematics in Central Brazil | p. 453 |
| Minguito, Managua's Little Saint: Christian Base Communities and Popular Religion in Nicaragua | p. 467 |
| Hallucinogenic Plants in Indigenous South American Cultures | p. 480 |
| Forecasting Andean Rainfall and Crop Yield: Western Science and Folk-Wisdom | p. 485 |
| The Pragmatics of Conversion in the Brazilian Religious Marketplace | p. 490 |
| Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil | p. 497 |
| Empty Breasts and Empty Fields: A Mayan Subsistence Culture | p. 505 |
| The Healing Touch of Love | p. 508 |
| Bibliographical Essay | p. 515 |
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