Water has become an urgent theme in anthropology as the worldwide need to provide
adequate supplies of clean water to all people becomes more challenging. Anthropologists …

Roads matter to people. This claim is central to the work of Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox,
who in this book use the example of highway building in South America to explore what …

Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the
source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and …

Climate change is producing profound changes globally. Yet we still know little about how it
affects real people in real places on a daily basis because most of our knowledge comes …

Based on cutting-edge research, these 12 essays examine connections between race and
national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean in the post-independence era. They …

Remaking the Nation presents new ways of thinking about the nation, nationalism and
national identities. Drawing links between popular culture and indigenous movements …

This article is about debates concerning the 'postcolonial'. The term bears a variety of inter-
related sets of meanings. In the first place 'postcolonial'has been used in reference to a …

Human populations worldwide are vulnerable to natural disasters. Certain conditions—such
as geographical location or people's income level—can affect the degree to which natural …

" Nature and Culture in the Andes provides a suite of graceful, sweeping essays on the
relations of landscape and people in the Andean countries of South America. It offers fresh …

"¿ Es plausible pensar que las elites ecuatorianas sientan temor ante la población nativa?¿
Cuáles son los elementos fundacionales de esta desconfianza hacia los indios?¿ Cómo se …