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Kharisiris en acción
Una de las formas más eficaces de estigmatización de las actuaciones médicas y de los profesionales de la salud que desempeñan su labor sanitaria tanto en las comunidades rurales como en las grandes ciudades del área altiplánica de Bolivia en su identificación como un personaje maligno que busca los fluidos humanos, la grasa en principio, pero también la sangre.
La diversidad frente al espejo
Se ofrece materiales de discusión y debate sobre la salud y el fenómeno migratorio.
El Alto, Rebel City
Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a satellite city to the Bolivian capital of La Paz: El Alto, where more than three-quarters of the population identify as indigenous Aymara. For several years, El Alto has been at the heart of resistance to neoliberal market reforms, such as the export of natural resources and the privatization of public water systems. In October 2003, protests centered in El Alto forced the Bolivian president to resign; in December 2005, the country’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, was elected. The growth of a strong social justice movement in Bolivia...
Social Sciences
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Katherine D. McCann is acting editor for this volume. The subject categories for Volume 57 are as follows: Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences Anthropology Economics Geography Government and Politics International Relations Sociology
Monsters
The human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch in human history, from ancient Egypt to modern Hollywood, imaginary beings have haunted dreams and fantasies, provoking in young and old shivers of delight, thrills of terror, and endless fascination. All known folklores brim with visions of looming and ferocious monsters, often in the role as adversaries to great heroes. But while heroes have been closely studied by mythologists, monsters have been neglected, even though they are equally important as pan-human symbols and reveal similar insights into ways the mind works. In Monsters: Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors, anthropologist David D. G...
Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America
Investigating local Indigenous processes of creation and creativity, this book uses ethnographic and comparative anthropological perspectives to enquire about creative transformative practices in lowland South America. The volume shows how people create and reinforce their conditions of being by employing different genres of transgression and by creatively shifting contexts of significance. Local socio-cosmic orders, the interrelation of creative genres (myth, verbal art, song, ritual, and handicrafts), and their changing frames of reference (from communal celebrations to wider political and commercial realms) demonstrate the relational, generative, and processual quality of Amerindian creativity.
Los kallawayas
Uno de los grupo étnicos andinos a los cuales ha prestado una atención inusitada a la ciencia antropológica contemporánea en relación con la medicina, el ritual y la salud en los Andes, ha sido, sin ninguna duda, el de los Kallawayas bolivianos. Los Kallawayas constituyen en la actualidad un espeso enigma tanto para etnohistoriadores como para lingüístas y antropólogos. A pesar de los numerosos estudios de que han sido objeto, por parte de especialistas de diversas índole, que han alentado cierto orgullo étnico entre los actuales Kallawayas, así como un aire exótico y esotérico entre las élites paceñas respecto a los supuestos conocimientos mágicos que poseen, poco se conoce ...
