Anthropology: Showing 1 to 21 of 21 results where the Subjects is Latin American Studies sorted by Newest to oldest

Architectures of Hope

Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing

By Moisés Kopper
Subjects: Political Science, Urban Politics, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Class Studies

On the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, Brazil implemented its largest-ever public housing program, the Minha Casa Minha Vida

Architectures of Hope

Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil’s Public Housing

By Moisés Kopper
Subjects: Political Science, Urban Politics, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Class Studies

On the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, Brazil implemented its largest-ever public housing program, the Minha Casa Minha Vida

Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba

By Ruth Behar
Subjects: Caribbean Studies, Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Literary Studies

An anthology by Cuban and Cuban-American writers, artists, and scholars celebrating a new era of restored relations between Cuba and the U.S.

Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance

Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

By Umi Vaughan
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Music, Dance, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies

An ethnography of music and dance exploring the economic, social, and ideological constraints under which social classes and racial groups interact

By Carlos E. A. Coimbra, Nancy M. Flowers, Francisco M. Salzano, and Ricardo V. Santos
Subjects: Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: Human-Environment Interactions

Illuminates the experience of a small-scale culture with large-scale change

Women of the Andes

Patriarchy and Social Change in Two Peruvian Towns

By Susan C. Bourque & Kay Barbara Warren
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, Political Science

Studies women of two Peruvian highland communities and the cultural implications of gender differences

Markets and Cultural Voices

Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters

By Tyler Cowen
Subjects: Economics, Anthropology, Latin American Studies
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Explores the world of three Mexican artists to reveal how globalization shapes their lives

When Women Have Wings

Feminism and Development in Medellin, Colombia

By Donna F. Murdock
Subjects: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Latin American Studies

A vivid and detailed ethnographic account of the problems of professionalization and feminism in a community center project in one of Medellín, Colombia's most embattled working class districts

Modern Loves

The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage

By Jennifer Sue Hirsch & Holly Wardlow
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, Asian Studies, African Studies

Grounded in recent, cutting edge feminist anthropological theory, these essays discuss how women and men do courtship, intimacy, and marriage around the world

Legalizing Moves

Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency

By (photographer) Susan Bibler Coutin
Subjects: Anthropology, Law, Latin American Studies, Sociology

Examines the transnational implications of immigrants' legalization efforts

Harvesting Coffee, Bargaining Wages

Rural Labor Markets in Colombia, 1975-1990

By Sutti Ortiz
Subjects: Anthropology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Latin American Studies, Sociology, Class Studies
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

A close ethnographic study of how culture, power, gender, and institutions affect labor exchanges

Cultures of Scholarship

Edited by Sarah "Sally" C. Humphreys
Subjects: History, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Latin American Studies
Series: The Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series

Reveals and challenges the barriers to a truly international scholarship

The Allure of the Foreign

Imported Goods in Postcolonial Latin America

Edited by Benjamin Orlove
Subjects: Anthropology, History, Latin American Studies, Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

A rich analysis of the internal social factors that drive the demand for foreign goods

Culture and Global Change

Social Perceptions of Deforestation in the Lacandona Rain Forest in Mexico

By Lourdes Arizpe, Fernanda Paz, and Margarita Velazquez
Subjects: Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: Linking Levels of Analysis

Offers a model for how to gather information on the human dimensions of global change