This was the homepage for Peoples and Cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean 2019 as a one-month course. There were three required books:
- Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by Matthew Restall (2004).
- Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations by Sidney W. Mintz (2010).
- A Companion to Latin American Anthropology edited by Deborah Poole (2008).
This was a course outline linked to Teaching Latin America 2019 and part of a larger series that includes:
- The most recent Latin America & Caribbean Anthropology 2021 which blogs through the second edition of The Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean by Harry Sanabria.
- The 2016 Teaching Latin America and Caribbean Anthropology and the Student Projects.
- Anthropologists Studying Immigration in the United States (2013).
- The first post that launched the series, from 2012: Teaching: Latin America & Caribbean.
These posts are all cataloged in the Latin America index tag for the site, which also includes related blog-posts.
Creation & Conquest Myths
1. Reconceptualizing
(Please see the 2021 class Latin American and Caribbean Peoples for a more recent attempt at reconceptualizing Latin America.)
- Restall, Seven Myths, “Introduction” (xiii-xix)
- Lynn Stephen, “Reconceptualizing Latin America” (426-446)
2. Racialization
- Restall, Seven Myths, 1-63
- Ana M. Alonso, “Borders, Sovereignty, and Racialization” (230-253)
3. Language
- Restall, Seven Myths, 64-130
- Penelope Harvey, “Language States” (193-213)
4. Indigenous Anthropologies
- Restall, Seven Myths, 131-145
- Stefano Varese, Guillermo Delgado, and Rodolfo L. Meyer, “Indigenous Anthropologies beyond Barbados” (375-398)
Colonial Legacies
5. Afro-Latin
- Mintz, Three Ancient Colonies, 1-43
- Jaime Arocha and Adriana Maya, “Afro-Latin American Peoples” (399-425)
6. Race
- Mintz, Three Ancient Colonies, 44-87
- Peter Wade, “Race in Latin America” (177-192)
7. Gender
- Mintz, Three Ancient Colonies, 88-181
- Olivia Harris, “Alterities: Kinship and Gender” (276-302)
8. Peasants
- Mintz, Three Ancient Colonies, 182-212
- Linda J. Seligmann, “Agrarian Reform and Peasant Studies: The Peruvian Case” (325-351)
Nations, Anthropology, Aftermaths
9. Bolivia-Colombia-Ecuador
- Rossana Barragán, “Bolivia: Bridges and Chasms” (32-55)
- Myriam Jimeno, “Colombia: Citizens and Anthropologists” (72-89)
- Carmen Martínez Novo, “Ecuador: Militants, Priests, Technocrats, and Scholars” (90-108)
10. Brazil
- Mariza Peirano, “Brazil: Otherness in Context” (56-71)
- Alcida Rita Ramos, “Disengaging Anthropology” (466-484)
11. Mexico-Peru
- Salomón Nahmad Sittón, “Mexico: Anthropology & the Nation State” (128-149)
- Casey Walsh, “Statistics and Anthropology: The Mexican Case” (352-372)
- Carlos Iván Degregori and Pablo Sandoval, “Peru: From Otherness to a Shared Diversity” (150-173)
12. Argentina
- Claudia Briones and Rosana Guber, “Argentina: Contagious Marginalities” (11-31)
- Gordillo, “Places and Academic Disputes: The Argentine Gran Chaco” (447-465)
13. Guatemala
- Victoria Sanford, “On the Frontlines: Forensic Anthropology” (485-501)
- Brigittine M. French, “Guatemala: Essentialisms and Cultural Politics” (109-127)
14. Aftermath
- Isaias Rojas Pérez, “Writing the Aftermath: Anthropology and ‘Post-Conflict’” (254-275)