Contemporary cultures and societies of Latin America : a reader in the social anthropology of Middle and South America / [edited by] Dwight B. Heath.
| Other author | Heath, Dwight B. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 3rd ed. |
| Publication Info | Illinois : Waveland Press, Inc., 2002, 1965. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xiii, 521 p.). |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;1668768 |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Pt I: Latin America: Image and Reality -- Why Latin America? / Thomas E. Skidmore and Peter H. Smith -- Constructing Culture and Power in Latin America / Daniel H. Levine -- Anthropology and Human Rights in Latin America / Ellen Messer -- Relationships among the World System, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecological Anthropology in the Endangered Amazon / Leslie E. Sponsel -- A Retrospective View of the Harvard-Chiapas Project / Evon Z. Vogt -- Pt. II: The Anthropological Enterprise -- An Experiment in Cross-Cultural Communications / Kenneth M. Kensinger -- Borders and Boundaries of State and Self at the End of Empire / Michael Kearney -- A Handful of Ashes: Reflections on Tristes Tropiques / Harald E. L. Prins -- The Contributions of Applied Anthropology to Peasant Development / John Durston -- Language Preservation and Publishing / H. Russell Bernard. -- Worms, Witchcraft and Wild Incantations: The Case of the Chicken Soup Cure / Jeffrey David Ehrenreich -- Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans / David M. Stoll -- Pt. III: Traditional and Modern Cultures -- Indigenous Organizations: Rising Actors in Latin America / Rodolfo Stavenhagen -- Hit and Run: The Stick-and-Ball Game as an Integral Part of Raramuri Culture / Albino Mares -- Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Field School in "the Other Cancun" / Alicia Re Cruz -- Market Vendors vs. Multinationals: David and Goliath Revisited / Beverly N. Chinas -- Restructuring Ethnicity in Chiapas and the World / George A. Collier - Dona Flora and the "Informal Sector" Debate: Entrepreneurial Strategies in a Bolivian Enterprise / Hans Buechler -- Changes in Drinking Patterns in Five Bolivian Cultures: A Cautionary Tale about Historical approaches / Dwight B. Heath -- Ethnodevelopment and the Yuqui of Lowland Bolivia / Allyn MacLean Stearman -- Kuna Molas and the Global Economy / Karin E. Tice -- Ending Serfdom in Peru: The Struggle for Land and Freedom in Vicos / Paul L. Doughty -- Pt. IV: Identity and Ethnicity -- Jews in Latin America / Judith Laikin Elkin -- No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latin Americans Today / Anani Dzidzienyo -- Ethnic Artists and the Appropriation of Fashion: Embroidery and Identity in Caylloma, Peru / Blenda Femenias -- Gringas, Ghouls and Guatemala: Fear of North American Women and Body-Organ Trafficking / Abigail E. Adams -- Family, Social Insecurity, and the "Underdevelopment" of Gay Institutions in Latin America / Stephen O. Murray -- Abstinence, Antibiotics, and Estar Jurado: The manners of Drinking in Working-Class Mexico City / Matthew C. Gutmann -- The Day of the Dead as Mexican National Symbol / Stanley H. Brandes -- Body Paint, Feathers, and VCRs: Aesthetics and Authenticity in Amazonian Activism / Beth A. Conklin -- Pt. V: Relations of Power -- The Dynamic Contract in a Mexican Village / George M. Foster -- Local government in Bolivia: Public Administration and Popular Participation / Adrianne Aron-Schaar -- Touching the Air: the Cultural Force of Women in Chile / Catherine M. Boyle -- Women in the Transition of Democracy: Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo / Maria del Carmen Feijoo and Monica Gogna -- Studying Violence: Victims, Perpetrators, and the Ethnographer / Antonius C. G. M. Robben -- God Is an American / Bernard Arcand -- The Culture of Poverty / Oscar Lewis -- The Aristocracy n Modern Mexico / Hugo G. Nutini -- Aspects of Group Relations in a Complex Society: Mexico / Eric R. Wolf -- Pt. VI: Views of the World -- When 1+1 not equal to 2: Making Mathematics in Central Brazil / Mariana Kawall Leal Ferreira --Minguito, Managua's Little Saint: Christian Base Communities and Popular Religion in Nicaragua / Eric Canin -- Hallucinogenic Plants in Indigenous South America Cultures / David J. Wilson -- Forecasting Andean Rainfall and Crop Yield: Western Science and Folk-Wisdom / Benjamin S. Orlove, John C. H. Chiang and Mark A. Cane -- The Pragmatics of Conversion in the Brazilian Religious Marketplace / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Empty Breasts and Empty Fields: A Mayan Subsistence Culture / Jody Glittenberg -- The Healing Touch of Love / Joseph W. Bastien. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Language | This edition in English. |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |