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Amazonia's Cassava and Manioc Through Historical Times
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 4, December 2025.ABSTRACT This provocation calls readers to think more deeply about the role anthropology could play in radically disrupting plant blindness. Thanks to Environmental Humanities, the natural world is no longer apprehended as a mere backdrop to human activity.
Laura Rival
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 522-544, November 2025.Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 566-580, September 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the persistence of race in biological anthropology, particularly in the context of ancestry estimation using the Fordisc software. Despite efforts to move away from race‐based typologies since the mid‐20th century, historical notions of race continue to shape scientific methods and technologies in anthropology. By tracing
Iris Clever, Lisette Jong
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Popularizing Autogestión: Punk, Zapatismo, and Anarchist Ethics in Mexico City
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT Autogestión (self‐management), has been a popular articulation of radical politics since its emergence in the 1960s. This article examines how Mexico City's anarcho‐punk scene transformed autogestión in the 1990s from an anarcho‐syndicalist principle into a unique ethical practice detached from industrial material production.
Livia K. Stone
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT This article analyzes the different expressions of authenticity, fidelity, and genuineness surrounding the Mexican culinary scene in New York. On the one hand, self‐identified Mexicans express sensory and memory nostalgia during the production and consumption of foods they recognize as their own.
Axel G. Elías Jiménez
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2025.Abstract This article contributes to understanding contemporary processes of racialization in the Central American migration landscape by looking at the residential reception of increasingly diverse groups of people on the move. Based on research in southern Honduras, it argues that we need to disentangle the racialized and religious politics involved ...
Nanneke Winters
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2025.Abstract This collection explores how contemporary racialization processes shape and are shaped by migration dynamics in the Central American and Mexican context. Marked by histories of migration and displacement, the region has become a critical crossroads for increasingly diverse populations on the move, from journeys of African, Asian, and Caribbean
Nanneke Winters, Caitlin E. Fouratt
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Measuring the performance of Antarctic Treaty decision‐making
Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 1, February 2025.Abstract Agreements reached at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings (ATCMs) are among the primary means for addressing Antarctic conservation and environmental protection issues. However, according to contemporary scholars, Antarctic Treaty decision‐making is becoming increasingly unresponsive to the rising environmental challenges in the region.
Natasha Blaize Gardiner +3 more
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 352-363, December 2024.Abstract This paper explores selective aspects of the historical processes of organization of the kichwa peasantry in the Andes of Ecuador. Based on the analysis of two representative cases of confrontation between peasants and landowners over access to land in the province of Chimborazo, it discusses the relevance of the concept of “gamonalismo” as ...
Víctor Bretón
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Seminario "Salud y enfermedad entre los siglos XIX y XX en los países de la Europa Mediterránea"
Historia contemporánea, 2018 Historia Contemporánea
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