Designed to expose readers to some of the most important critical thinking by anthropologists across a wide range of issues, this anthology combines a variety of works that examine Latin American cultures from a number of different perspectives. Very accessible and perceptive, it covers a wide range of topics -- beginning with a general overview of Latin America (observations about size of land mass, geography, population size and growth rates) and then highlighting some of the cultural characteristics that permit us to talk about "Latin America" -- balancing the incredible cultural diversity with some of the overriding features that give at least the appearance of "similarity."

Preface

xi

Part I: Introduction

1

(27)

1 Introduction to Latin America: Its Land and People

1

(12)

Rudolfo Stavenhagen

2 "Challenging the Nation-State in Latin America"

13

(11)

Carlos Fuentes

3 "The Mirror of the Other"

24

(4)

Part II: Prehistory

28

(23)

Anna Roosevelt

4 "Lost Civilizations of the Lower Amazon"

28

(6)

Clark Erickson

5 "Applied Archaeology and Rural Development: Archaeology's Potential Contribution to the Future"

34

(12)

Michael Harner

6 "The Enigma of Aztec Sacrifice"

46

(5)

Part III: America's Iberian Heritage

51

(37)

George Foster

7 "Culture and Conquest"

51

(6)

Eric Wolf

8 "Sons of the Shaking Earth"

57

(31)

Part IV: Ethnicity

88

(37)

John Kicza

9 "The Indian in Latin America"

88

(10)

Charles R. Hale

10 "Inter-Ethnic Relations and Class Structure in Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast: A Historic Overview"

98

(15)

Conrad Kottak

11 "Assault on Paradise"

113

(12)

Part V: Gender

125

(56)

Evelyn Stevens

12 "Machismo and Marianismo"

125

(8)

Norma Chinchilla

13 "Women's Movements in the Americas: Feminism's Second Wave"

133

(6)

Helen Safa

14 "Women's Social Movements in Latin America"

139

(10)

Michael Whiteford

Ruth Alden

15 "Changing Gender Role Attitudes among Women in an Urban Mexican Neighborhood"

149

(32)

Part VI: Social Structure

173

(41)

Richard Adams

16 "Brokers and Career Mobility Systems in the Structure of Complex Societies"

173

(8)

Arthur D. Murphy

Alex Stepick

17 "Social Inequality in Oaxaca"

181

(11)

Samuel Stone

18 "Aspects of Power Distribution in Costa Rica"

192

(14)

Andrew Hunter Whiteford

19 "Changing Life Patterns: The Elite of the Valle of Pubenza, Colombia"

206

(8)

Part VII: Religion

214

(50)

John K. Chance

20 "Changes in Twentieth-Century Mesoamerican Cargo Systems"

214

(12)

Diana De G. Brown

Mario Bick

21 "Religion, Class, and Context: Continuities and Discontinuities in Brazilian Umbana"

226

(19)

Christian Smith

22 "The Spirit and Democracy: Base Communities, Protestantism, and Democratization in Latin America"

245

(19)

Part VIII: Health

264

(55)

Linda M. Whiteford

23 "The Political Economy of Health in Latin America"

264

(15)

Sidney M. Greenfield

24 "German Spirit Doctors in Spiritist Healing in Urban Brazil"

279

(11)

George M. Foster

25 "How to Stay Well in Tzintzumtzan"

290

(15)

Joseph Bastien

26 "Adaptive Strategies of Bolivian Herbalists to Biomedicine"

305

(14)

Part IX: Economics, Neoliberal Reforms, and Trade Agreements

319

(72)

Kenyon Stebbins

27 "Tobacco or Health in the Third World: A Political Economy Perspective with Emphasis on Mexico"

319

(13)

Mark Ritchie

28 "Free Trade versus Sustainable Agriculture: The Implications of NAFTA"

332

(9)

Frank Cancian

Peter Brown

29 "Who Is Rebelling in Chiapas?"

341

(5)

Eliana Cardoso

30 "Privatization Fever in Latin America"

346

(8)

Lynn Stephen

31 "Accommodation and Resistance: Ejidatario, Ejidataria, and Official Views of Ejido Reform"

354

(14)

Donna Chollett

32 "Culture, Sweetness, and Death: The Political Economy of Sugar Production and Consumption"

368

(11)

J. Douglas Uzzell

33 "Mixed Strategies and the Informal Sector: Three Faces of Reserve Labor"

379

(12)

Part X: Environment

391

(62)

Marc Edelman

34 "Rethinking the Hamburger Thesis: Deforestation and the Crisis of Central America's Beef Exports"

391

(23)

Elizabeth Dore

35 "Capitalism and the Ecological Crisis: Legacy of the 1990s"

414

(8)

Peter Rosset

36 "The Greening of Cuba"

422

(7)

Kevin Healy

37 "Political Ascent of Bolivia's Coca Leaf Producers"

429

(18)

Katharine Milton

38 "Civilization and Its Discontents"

447

(6)

Part XI: Population Movement and Changing Cities

453

Carole Nagengast

Michael Kearney

39 "Mixtec Ethnicity: Social Identity, Political Consciousness, and Political Activism"

453

(21)

Suzana Sawyer

40 "Phantom Citizenship and the Prosthetics of Corporate Capital: `Maria Aguinda et al. versus Texaco, Inc. USA'"

474

(5)

Douglas Butterworth

John Chance

41 "Latin American Urbanization"

479

(15)

Alan Gilbert

42 "The Latin American City"

494

(8)

Arturo Escobar

43 "Conclusion: Imagining a Postdevelopment Era"

502

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