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The Middle Classes in Latin America
As a collective effort, this volume locates the formation of the middle classes at the core of the histories of Latin America in the last two centuries. Featuring scholars from different places across the Americas, it is an interdisciplinary contribution to the world histories of the middle classes, histories of Latin America, and intersectional studies. It also engages a larger audience about the importance of the middle classes to understand modernity, democracy, neoliberalism, and decoloniality. By including research produced from a variety of Latin American, North American, and other audiences, the volume incorporates trends in social history, cultural studies and discursive theory. It situates analytical categories of race and gender at the core of class formation. This volume seeks to initiate a critical and global conversation concerning the ways in which the analysis of the middle classes provides crucial re-readings of how Latin America, as a region, has historically been understood.
Our Indigenous Ancestors
Our Indigenous Ancestors complicates the history of the erasure of native cultures and the perceived domination of white, European heritage in Argentina through a study of anthropology museums in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Carolyne Larson demonstrates how scientists, collectors, the press, and the public engaged with Argentina’s native American artifacts and remains (and sometimes living peoples) in the process of constructing an “authentic” national heritage. She explores the founding and functioning of three museums in Argentina, as well as the origins and consolidation of Argentine archaeology and the professional lives of a handful of dynamic curators and ar...
The Transnational Unconscious
This collection of essays approaches the history of psychoanalysis from a transnational perspective, emphasizing the flows of people, ideas and institution across cultures and nations, and examining the factors that contributed to turn psychoanalysis into one of the systems of beliefs that defined the Twentieth century.
Freud in the Pampas
This is a fascinating history of how psychoanalysis became an essential element of contemporary Argentine culture--in the media, in politics, and in daily private lives. The book reveals the unique conditions and complex historical process that made possible the diffusion, acceptance, and popularization of psychoanalysis in Argentina, which has the highest number of psychoanalysts per capita in the world. It shows why the intellectual trajectory of the psychoanalytic movement was different in Argentina than in either the United States or Europe and how Argentine culture both fostered and was shaped by its influence. The book starts with a description of the Argentine medical and intellectual...
Latin America's Middle Class
As middle classes in developing countries grow in size and political power, do they foster stable democracies and prosperous, innovative economies? Or do they encourage crass materialism, bureaucratic corruption, unrealistic social demands, and ideological polarization? These questions have taken on a new urgency in recent years but they are not new, having first appeared in the mid twentieth century in debates about Latin America. At a moment when exploding middle classes in the global South increasingly capture the world's attention, these Latin American classics are ripe for revisiting. Part One of the book introduces key debates from the 1950s and 1960s, when Cold War era scholars questi...
Etnografías contemporáneas. Trabajo de campo
Hacer trabajo de campo ha sido la marca distintiva del que hacer antropológico por lo menos desde una centuria atrás. Pero hacer trabajo de campo hoy significa enfrentar los nuevos contextos socioculturales y políticos en los que se inscriben los sujetos de estudio y nosotros mismos. Implica manejar nuevas metodologías para una variedad de procesos en los que lo personal e impersonal, local, nacional y global se entrelazan de maneras complejas y les dan un contenido peculiar, tanto a la observación como a la participación. El conjunto de investigaciones de este volumen presenta los resultados y el ingenio de quienes por primera vez se enfrentan a este ejercicio y se aventuran a utilizar los instrumentos investigativos de la tradición antropológica, en un contexto que los desafía y confronta.
Afrontar lo inesperado
Las múltiples dimensiones de la vida social que se vieron afectadas por la pandemia de COVID-19 obligaron al Estado argentino a desplegarse en varios frentes a la vez. Cuestiones nuevas, que alteraban las prioridades de una agenda estatal fraguada al calor de los acontecimientos, se combinaron con problemas y desigualdades de larga data puestos en evidencia con mayor crudeza. El Estado elaboró una serie de acciones en el escenario de emergencia para reforzar el sistema sanitario, orientar los comportamientos individuales, amortiguar el golpe económico y contener daños; su intervención se consideró en un principio necesaria e inevitable. Los capítulos reunidos en este libro demuestran ...
Contrarrevolución, colaboracionismo y protesta
El golpe militar del 11 de septiembre de 1973 contra el gobierno de la Unidad Popular no fue producto exclusivo de la decisión de los altos mandos de las Fuerzas Armadas de destruir la democracia chilena. También fue posible gracias a un masivo movimiento contrarrevolucionario forjado en la lucha política contra la izquierda en el poder, en el que destacaron organizaciones sociales que se entendían a sí mismas y eran reconocidas como las representantes de la clase media. Este libro describe el camino seguido por esa clase media organizada —profesionales, transportistas, comerciantes, pequeños empresarios, masones, entre otros— desde su movilización contrarrevolucionaria, la colabo...
