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Identifying Indigenous people: Visual appearance, filiation, and the experience of race in an “Indigenous” soccer championship and in everyday life in Otavalo, Ecuador

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 341-352, December 2023., 2023
Abstract While Indigenous/mestizo distinction in Latin Americanist anthropology has been mainly thought of as a cultural and/or socioeconomic demarcation, I argue that a conceptualization in terms of race offers some valuable insights. Starting from a soccer championship in the Otavalo region of Ecuador, I show how otavaleño Indigenous people's ...
Jérémie Voirol
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Shared soundscapes: The (re)activation of an institutional and individual archive of Peruvian music and dance

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 206-218, September 2023., 2023
Abstract “Shared soundscapes” is a key concept that allows us to identify the multiplicity of agencies involved in historical sound recordings and their reactivation today. We use the notion to compare two very different Peruvian case studies concerning Asháninka and Nomatsiguenga peoples of the Central Rainforest and Muchik, Quechua, and mestizo ...
Rocío Barreto, Gisela Cánepa, Ingrid Kummels, Walther Maradiegue   +3 more
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Bargaining and interdependence: Common parent‐offspring conflict resolution strategies among Chon Chuuk and their implications for suicidal behavior

American Anthropologist, Volume 125, Issue 2, Page 262-282, June 2023., 2023
Abstract The anthropology of Pacific cultures spotlights social conflict as a proximate cause of suicide. Ethnographic accounts suggest that suicidal behaviors are high‐cost conflict‐resolution strategies. We investigate parent‐child conflicts and the strategies adolescents and young adults use to resolve them, using concepts from human behavioral ...
Kristen L. Syme, Edward H. Hagen
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Fragile connections: Community computer networks, human infrastructures, and the consequences of their breakdown in Havana

American Anthropologist, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 383-398, June 2022., 2022
Abstract To compensate for their lack of internet access, Cuban video game enthusiasts and programmers have built vast grassroots computer networks, the biggest of which, SNET (Street Network), at one point connected tens of thousands of households across Havana.
Steffen Köhn, Nestor Siré
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Espacio, tiempo y poder en la atención hospitalaria de la salud y la enfermedad: aportes de una etnografía de un centro obstétrico [PDF]

, 2017
Este artículo presenta resultados de una etnografía de un centro obstétrico de un hospital del Gran Buenos Aires a partir del análisis de la dimensión espacio-temporal de la atención hospitalaria.
García, María Guadalupe, Margulies, Susana, Recoder, María Laura   +2 more
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State and life in Cuba: calibrating ideals and realities in a state‐socialist system for food provision

Social Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 803-826, November 2020., 2020
Based on our collective ethnography of Cuba’s socialist system for the provision of state‐subsidised food, this article explores manners in which the state weaves itself into the fabric of people’s everyday lives in state‐socialist society. Instituted by Cuba’s revolutionary government in the early 1960s, Cuba’s ‘state system for provisioning’ is still
Osmara Mesa Cumbrera, Lázara Yolanda Carrazana Fuentes, Dialvys Rodríguez Hernández, Martin Holbraad, Isabel Reyes Mora, María Regina Cano Orúe   +5 more
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“Sé que me cortaron, pero lo olvidé inmediatamente cuando te vi”. La violencia obstétrica como un nuevo marco para dotar de inteligibilidad las memorias y experiencias de los partos en la Argentina reciente

Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad: Revista Latinoamericana, 2021
El artículo problematiza la categoría violencia obstétrica a partir de la emergencia de un cuadro moral/cognitivo de referencia que permite establecer el significado de la violencia en ciertas prácticas obstétricas vinculadas al parto.
Leila Abdala
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A Colonial‐Scientific Interface: The Construction, Viewing, and Circulation of Faces via a 1906 German Racial Atlas

American Anthropologist, Volume 122, Issue 2, Page 327-341, June 2020., 2020
ABSTRACT Atlases of anthropometric portraits—a scientific genre that emerged during the last quarter of the nineteenth century in the context of classical physical anthropology—invite readers to compare different races from all over the world. Concentrating on Bernard Hagen's Atlas of Heads and Faces of Asian and Melanesian People (1906), this article ...
Geertje Mak
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El Mar kuna : representación y uso de los recursos marinos en Kuna Yala (Panamá) [PDF]

, 2004
Desde hace siglos, el pueblo kuna o tule explota los recursos de la costa atlántica de Panamá. En la dieta kuna, el pescado constituye el 80% de las proteínas animales.
Martínez Mauri, Mònica
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Etnografías de la movilidad y la contención de las migraciones: repensando los métodos de la antropología

Antropologías del Sur, 2018
En este artículo me detengo a reflexionar sobre los desafíos metodológicos y teóricos que surgen a la hora de trabajar con los fenómenos contemporáneos de migración, refugio y desplazamiento humano.
Yerko Castro
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