Contemporary Cultures and Societies of
Latin America
A Reader in the Social Anthropology of Middle and
South America, Third Edition
Dwight B. Heath
The most wide-ranging collection of its kind,
Heath’s latest edition offers forty-seven articles on the peoples and
institutions of Middle and South America. Based on original research by social
scientists and chosen for their clarity and jargon-free writing, the Third
Edition’s contributions cover a diversity of themes and areas reflecting recent
developments in both anthropology and Latin America. Brief editorial
introductions place each article in a broader context, and recommended readings
offer readers sources for pursuing topics in greater depth.
$40.95 list, 521 pages
10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-190-7
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-190-0
© 2002
Table of Contents
Part I. LATIN AMERICA: Image and Reality
1. Why Latin America? (Thomas E. Skidmore and Peter H. Smith)
2. Constructing Culture and Power in Latin America (Daniel H. Levine)
3. Anthropology and Human Rights in Latin America (Ellen Messer)
4. Relationships among the World System, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecological
Anthropology in the Endangered Amazon (Leslie E. Sponsel)
5. A Retrospective View of the
Harvard-Chiapas Project (Evon Z. Vogt)
Part II. THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL ENTERPRISE
6. An Experiment in Cross-Cultural Communications (Kenneth M. Kensinger)
7. Borders and Boundaries of State and Self at the End of Empire (Michael
Kearney)
8. A Handful of Ashes: Reflections on Tristes Tropiques (Harald E. L. Prins)
9. The Contributions of Applied Anthropology to Peasant Development (John
Durston)
10. Language Preservation and Publishing (H. Russell Bernard)
11. Worms, Witchcraft and Wild Incantations: The Case of the Chicken Soup Cure
(Jeffrey David Ehrenreich)
12. Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans (David M. Stoll)
Part III. TRADITIONAL AND MODERN CULTURES
13. Indigenous Organizations: Rising Actors in Latin America (Rodolfo
Stavenhagen)
14. Hit and Run: The Stick-and-Ball Game as an Integral Part of Rarámuri Culture
(Albino Mares)
15. Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Field School in “the Other Cancún” (Alicia Re
Cruz)
16. Market Vendors vs. Multinationals: David and Goliath Revisited (Beverly N.
Chiñas)
17. Restructuring Ethnicity in Chiapas and the World (George A. Collier)
18. Doña Flora and the “Informal Sector” Debate: Entrepreneurial Strategies in a
Bolivian Enterprise (Hans Buechler)
19. Changes in Drinking Patterns in Five Bolivian Cultures: A Cautionary Tale
about Historical Approaches (Dwight B. Heath)
20. Ethnodevelopment and the Yuquí of Lowland Bolivia (Allyn MacLean Stearman)
21. Kuna Molas and the Global Economy (Karin E. Tice)
22. Ending Serfdom in Peru: The Struggle for Land and Freedom in Vicos (Paul L.
Doughty)
Part IV. IDENTITY AND ETHNICITY
23. Jews in Latin America (Judith Laikin Elkin)
24. No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latin Americans Today (Anani Dzidzienyo)
25. Ethnic Artists and the Appropriation of Fashion: Embroidery and Identity in
Caylloma, Peru (Blenda Femenías)
26. Gringas, Ghouls and Guatemala: Fear of North American Women and Body-Organ
Trafficking (Abigail E. Adams)
27. Family, Social Insecurity, and the “Underdevelopment” of Gay Institutions in
Latin America (Stephen O. Murray)
28. Abstinence, Antibiotics, and Estar Jurado: The Manners of Drinking in
Working-Class Mexico City (Matthew C. Gutmann)
29. The Day of the Dead as Mexican National Symbol (Stanley H. Brandes)
30. Body Paint, Feathers, and VCRs: Aesthetics and Authenticity in Amazonian
Activism (Beth A. Conklin)
Part V. RELATIONS OF POWER
31. The Dyadic Contract in a Mexican Village (George M. Foster)
32. Local Government in Bolivia: Public Administration and Popular Participation
(Adrianne Aron-Schaar)
33. Touching the Air: The Cultural Force of Women in Chile (Catherine M. Boyle)
34. Women in the Transition to Democracy: Argentinas Mothers of the Plaza de
Mayo (María del Carmen Feijoo and Mónica Gogna)
35. Studying Violence: Victims, Perpetrators, and the Ethnographer (Antonius C.
G. M. Robben)
36. God Is an American (Bernard Arcand)
37. The Culture of Poverty (Oscar Lewis)
38. The Aristocracy in Modern Mexico (Hugo G. Nutini)
39. Aspects of Group Relations in a Complex Society: Mexico (Eric R. Wolf)
Part VI. VIEWS OF THE WORLD
40. When 1 + 1 ¹ 2: Making Mathematics in Central Brazil
(Mariana Kawall Leal Ferreira)
41. Mingüito, Mangua’s Little Saint: Christian Base Communities and Popular
Religion in Nicaragua (Eric Canin)
42. Hallucinogenic Plants in Indigenous South American Cultures (David J.
Wilson)
43. Forecasting Andean Rainfall and Crop Yield: Western Science and Folk-Wisdom
(Benjamin J. Orlove, John C. H. Chiang, and Mark A. Cane)
44. The Pragmatics of Conversion in the Brazilian Religious Marketplace (Sidney
M. Greenfield)
45. Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Nancy Sheper-Hughes)
46. Empty Breasts and Empty Fields: A Mayan Subsistence Culture (Jody
Glittenberg)
47. The Healing Touch of Love (Joseph W. Bastien)
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