Latin American Studies / Anthropology

An ethnography of the decolonization of Maya-ness.

A study of Maya dental modification from archaeological sites spanning three millennia.

An exploration of gender, race, and food in Peru in the 1950s and 1960s and today.

An ethnography and media analysis of LGBT+ activism in São Paulo during Brazil’s conservative turn from 2010 to 2018.

How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.

Profiles of triumph and hardship amid massive inequality in Latin America.

New case studies documenting ten thousand years of cuisines across the cultures of Oaxaca, Mexico, from the earliest gathered plants, such as guajes, to the contemporary production of tejate and its health implications.

An exploration of the unexpected role that llamas and other Andean camelids played in transoceanic relationships and knowledge exchange.

A rich, long-term ethnography of women seafood traders in Mexico.

An ethnography of the Ecuadorian Amazon that demonstrates the need for a relational, place-based, contingent understanding of harm and toxicity.