Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility
This is an index of blog-posts related to the theme of Latin America and Anthropology. The posts are mostly about teaching Latin America, beginning with this 2012 teaching post. That post became part of a series which includes:
This post is a blog commentary on the first chapter of Harry Sanabria’s textbook The Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean (2nd edition, 2019). The chapter is titled “Anthropology, Latin America, and the Caribbean”
This 2020 course offers a blog experience through the 2nd edition of “The Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean” by Harry Sanabria.
Please share your thoughts on the best anthropological readings on trade and exchange! The December issue of Open Anthropology will feature 15 articles on trade.
Human history is marked by migration, cooperation, group permeability, & interconnection. Recent efforts to build walls harms human potential.
Resources for teaching Latin America and Caribbean themes anthropologically in a one-month intensive undergraduate-level class. Suggestions welcome!
What would be your suggestions for the main subjects to include in an anthropology textbook for teaching introduction to anthropology in Brazil?
There is a lot of great anthropology studying immigration in the United States. Immigration is central to the study of anthropology and to humanity.
With the Venezuela elections, questions of “Will Venezuela recover?” or “Will Venezuela collapse?” arise. Anthropological resources for longer-term perspective.
Readings and suggestions on Volunteer Tourism for an undergraduate anthropology student doing qualitative research in Costa Rica.
In the Hartwick College J Term 2016 course, “Peoples & Cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean,” students emerged with a rich array of final projects.
A 2016 book list for teaching Latin America & Caribbean Anthropology attempting to understand common themes in processes occurring across the Americas
The indigenous allies in Matthew Restall’s Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest point to contingent histories, not the inevitability of guns, germs & steel.
Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean is less about “peoples and cultures” and more about processes at work across the Americas.
Dr. Elizabeth Brumfiel, Professor of Anthropology & Archaeology at Northwestern University and an inspiring scholar, will be greatly missed.
Fernando Coronil worked toward the moral optimism of anthropology, “energizing struggles to build a world made of many worlds.”
Does culture matter? Anthropology promoted culture, but the book “Culture Matters”–and David Brooks–reveal a perverted idea of culture.
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