Contents
1 Argentina Contagious Marginalities 11 Claudia Briones and Rosana Guber 2 Bolivia Bridges and Chasms 32 Rossana Barragan 3 Brazil Otherness in Context 56 Mariza Peirano 4 Colombia Citizens and Anthropologists 72 Myriam Jimeno 5 Ecuador Militants, Priests, Technocrats, and Scholars 90 Carmen Martinez Novo 6 Guatemala Essentialisms and Cultural Politics 109 Brigittine M. French 7 Mexico Anthropology and the Nation-State 128 Salomon Nahmad Sitton 8 Peru From Otherness to a Shared Diversity 150...
Acknowledgments
This book has been many years in the making. My first and greatest debt is owed to my contributing authors. Their great insight, humor and patience made it possible for the book to move forward, and I feel honored to have been able to work with such a distinguished group of international anthropologists. Many other friends also provided much needed advice and support. Of these, I would especially like to thank Valeria Procupez for her invaluable help in defining the scope and content of the...
Introduction
In 1968, an article entitled Anthropology and Imperialism in the US journal Monthly Review challenged anthropologists to confront the worrying gap that seemed to separate their academic discipline from the political passions and complexities of a modernizing, capitalist, and militarized world. Arguing that anthropology is a child of Western imperialism, the article's author, Kathleen Gough, charged that anthropologists had ignored this reality to act, either implicitly or explicitly, as...
Notes on Contributors
Ana M. Alonso is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. She has done ethnographic and historical research in Mexico and the US-Mexico borderlands on topics related to state formation, resistance and revolution, nationalism and ethnicity race, legal narratives, social memory and material culture, space and place, gender and sexuality. She is the author of Thread ofBlood Colonialism, Revolution, and Gender on Mexico's Northern Frontier 1994 . Recent publications include...