May 20, 2024
Unruly Domestication investigates how Peru’s ongoing, internationally endorsed “war on poverty” shapes politics, intimate identities, and urban space in Lima. Drawing on a decade of embedded, ethnographic research in Lima’s largest… READ MORE
May 7, 2024
The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity, progress, national grandeur, and stability. Far from accomplishing their stated goals, however, these initiatives concealed violence, and permitted… READ MORE
February 26, 2024
Among the richest culinary traditions in Mexico are those of the “eight regions” of the state of Oaxaca. Mesquite Pods to Mezcal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines brings together some… READ MORE
January 8, 2024
The “shrimp ladies,” locally known as changueras in southern Sinaloa, Mexico, sell seafood in open-air markets, forming an extralegal but key part of the economy built around this “pink gold.”… READ MORE
January 1, 2024
Camelids—a category which includes llamas, alpacas, and vicuñas—are vital to the cultures and economies of the Andes. The animals have also been at the heart of ecological and social catastrophe:… READ MORE
December 4, 2023
In the dry season in the Andes, water from springs, lakes, reservoirs and melting glaciers feeds irrigation canals that have sustained communities for thousands of years. Managing and maintaining these… READ MORE
October 17, 2023
Reckoning with Harm is a striking ethnographic analysis of the harm resulting from oil extraction. Covering fifty years of settler colonization and industrial transformation of the Ecuadorian Amazon, Amelia Fiske interrogates… READ MORE
April 24, 2023
Rosalynn A. Vega’s new book, Nested Ecologies: A Multilayered Ethnography of Functional Medicine, is a study informed by the experiences of doctors and patients, and the author’s own health crisis…. READ MORE
November 10, 2022
In her book Undocumented Motherhood, author Elizabeth Farfán-Santos combines oral history and personal reflection in revealing how immigration status impacts health care experiences. As part of this work, she shares… READ MORE
October 14, 2020
In the first half of the twentieth century, a charismatic Peruvian Amazonian Indigenous chief played a key role in leading his people, the Ashaninka, through the chaos generated by the… READ MORE
