The phrase “identity politics” has come to encapsulate a wide diversity of oppositional
movements in contemporary Latin America, marking a transition away from the previous …

With the so-called linguistic turn, historians have begun to study the ways in which a
multitude of cultural forms are imbricated in the colonial and imperial project. In analyzing …

This chapter pursues the premise that imperial authority and racial distinctions were
fundamentally structured in gendered terms. It looks at the administrative and medical …

Anthropologists engaged in post-colonial studies are increasingly adopting an historical
perspective and using archives. Yet their archival activity tends to remain more an extractive …

For over ten years, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America has been an essential text for
students studying the region. This second edition adds new material and brings the analysis …

Europe's colonies were never empty spaces to be made over in Europe's image or
fashioned in its interests; nor, indeed, were European states self-contained entities that at …

In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts,
rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate …

The Method of Hope examines the relationship between hope and knowledge by
investigating how hope is produced in various forms of knowledge Fijian, philosophical …

Documents reflects on the new challenges to humanistic social science in a world in which
the subjects of research increasingly share the professional passions and problems of the …

Indigenous people comprise only 0.2% of Brazil's population, yet occupy a prominent role in
the nation's consciousness. In her important and passionate new book, anthropologist …