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Preface: Introducing Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean
SECTION ONE: AN INTRODUCTION TO LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Introduction
1. Using Ethnography to Learn about Latin America and the Caribbean
Melanie A. Medeiros and Jennifer Guzmán
2. Old New World: An Archeological Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean
James Aimers
3. Check Your Narratives: Essentials for Understanding Latin American and Caribbean History, 1400–Present
Ryan M. Jones
SECTION TWO: RACE, RACIALIZATION, AND RACISM
Introduction
4. Raciality and Belonging in Cuban Tourism
L. Kaifa Roland
5. Protecting White Comfort and White Supremacy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jennifer Roth-Gordon
6. The “Paradoxical” Persistence of Haitian Vodou after the Cholera Epidemic
Guilberly Louissaint
SECTION THREE: ETHNICITY, CITIZENSHIP, AND BELONGING
Introduction
7. Language and the Emplacement of Indigenous Citizenship in Peru
Sandhya Krittika Narayanan
8. Post-Multicultural Anxieties? Trajectories of Indigenous Citizenship in La Guajira, Colombia
Pablo Jaramillo Salazar
9. A Panamanian of West Indian Descent: An Autoethnographic Study of Citizenship and Belonging
LaVerne M. Seales Soley
SECTION FOUR: GENDER AND INTERSECTIONALITY
Introduction
10. The Racial Politics of Queer, Urban, Second Generation Indigenous Lima Locals
Diego Arispe-Bazán
11. Racialized Geographies and the “War on Drugs”: Gender Violence, Militarization, and Indigenous Women in Mexico
Rosalva Aida Hernandez Castillo
12. After the Mosquito: Caring for Children with Congenital Zika Syndrome in Bahia, Brazil
K. Eliza Williamson
SECTION FIVE: LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY
Introduction
13. Rap Originario and Language Revitalization in Mexico: The ADN Maya Collective
Josep Cru
14. Kreyòl in Cuba: Writing Resistance, Affirming Haitian Heritage
Mariana F. Past
15. Linguistic Bias or a Chance to Get Ahead: Linguistic Repertoires in Aruban and Curaçaoan Schools
Keisha Wiel
SECTION SIX: POLITICS AND POWER
Introduction
16. Congressional Candidates and Political Campaigns in Clientelist Systems: Condoms and Concrete in Oaxaca, Mexico
Karleen Jones West
17. NGOs as “Necessary Evils”: Challenges of Doing Good in Urban Northeast Brazil
Luminiţa-Anda Mandache
18. The Role of Masculinity in Connecting Knowledge and Politics: Pension Experts in Chile
Maria J. Azocar
19. Indigenous Governance and Legal Pluralism: Constitutional Reform and Political Conflict in Bolivia
Matthew Doyle
SECTION SEVEN: POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND ITS LEGACY
Introduction
20. Violence and the Ethnographic Turn in Contemporary Colombian Art
Ana Guglielmucci and Esteban Rozo
21. Film Reception and Audience Ethnography: Charting Local Imaginaries of Violence in Contemporary Argentina and Colombia
Nick Morgan, Philippa Page, and Cecilia Sosa
22. Cementerio XXX: Political and Humanitarian Constructions of Victimhood for the Desaparecidos of “Post-Conflict” Guatemala
Sarah Maya Rosen
23. A Crack in the Wall: Ethnography as Solidarity with Indigenous Political Prisoners in Oaxaca, Mexico
Bruno Renero-Hannan
SECTION EIGHT: POVERTY, PRECARITY AND RESILIENCE
Introduction
24. Flipping the City: Space and Subjectivity in the São Paulo, Brazil Periphery
Charles H. Klein
25. Ties that Bind in the Dominican Republic: Buying Food on Credit in Corner Stores
Christine Hippert
26. “If It Wasn't for COVID, I Wouldn't Be Married”: Disruption, Agency and Making a Living in Chiapas Mexico
Katie Nelson
27. Music and Maria: Musical Nationalism in Post–Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico
Melissa Cambero Scott
SECTION NINE: DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
Introduction
28. Conceptions of Risk and Resettlement in Belenino River Communities in Peru
Sharon Gorenstein Rivera
29. Forced Displacement and Indigenous Resettlement Planning in Colombia
Emma Banks
30. “No a La Mina”: Indigenous Organizations’ Rejection of Toxic Mega-Mining in Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec
Alessandro Morosin
SECTION TEN: TOURISM AND ITS EFFECTS
Introduction
31. Structural Racism and Occupational Segregation in Northeast Brazil’s Ecotourism Industry
Melanie Medeiros and Tiffany Henriksen
32. Between the Edible and the Inedible: Cultural Tourism and Culinary Meaning in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Sarah Rachelle Renkert
33. Of Cash and Candy: The Complex Effects of Tourism on the Growth of Yucatec Maya Children
Kristi Krumrine
SECTION ELEVEN: MIGRATION AND KINSHIP
Introduction
34. Digital Solidarities, Transnational Families, and the Nicaraguan Refugee Crisis in Costa Rica
Caitlin E. Fouratt
35. Love, Money, and a Secret Divorce: Patriarchy and Senior Women’s Care-giving in Mexican Migration
Nora Haenn
36. “I Am Going without Knowing the History of My People”: Young People’s Engagement with the Past, Present and Future in the Guatemalan Diaspora in Southern Mexico
Malte Gembus
Conclusion
Index
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