A Companion to Latin American Anthropology by Poole, Deborah

A Companion to Latin American Anthropology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780631234685)

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A Companion to Latin American Anthropology by Poole, Deborah

A Companion to Latin American Anthropology

$63.95
A Companion to Latin American Anthropology by Poole, Deborah

A Companion to Latin American Anthropology

$63.95
Format: Hardcover
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Comprised of 24 newly commissioned chapters, this defining reference volume on Latin America introduces English-language readers to the debates, traditions, and sensibilities that have shaped the study of this diverse region.
  • Contributors include some of the most prominent figures in Latin American and Latin Americanist anthropology
  • Offers previously unpublished work from Latin America scholars that has been translated into English explicitly for this volume
  • Includes overviews of national anthropologies in Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil, and is also topically focused on new research
  • Draws on original ethnographic and archival research
  • Highlights national and regional debates
  • Provides a vivid sense of how anthropologists often combine intellectual and political work to address the pressing social and cultural issues of Latin America


Author: Deborah Poole
ISBN-10: 0631234683
ISBN-13: 9780631234685
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2008
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.49lbs
Size: 9.76h x 6.98w x 1.40d
By Deborah Poole
By Deborah Poole
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Deborah Poole is Professor of Anthropology in Latin American Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Peru: Time of Fear (with Gerardo Renique, 1992), Unruly Order: Violence, Power, and Regional Identity in the High Provinces of Peru (1994), Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World (1997), and Anthropology in the Margins of the State (coedited with Veena Das, 2004), as well as over 30 articles.

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