In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and
performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital …

The boundaries separating anthropology from history, and ethnohistory from history, were
once more clearly drawn than they are at present. At different moments, AR Radcliffe-Brown …

To date, much of the social science literature dealing with the extractive industries has been
dominated by debates over the so-called resource curse. According to its proponents …

In this exciting and challenging work, Norman Long brings together years of work and
thought in development studies to provide a key text for guiding future development …

What role does war play in political development? Our understanding of the rise of the
nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war. Challenging the …

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 …

When Indian communities of Chiapas, Mexico, rose in armed rebellion in 1994, they spoke
boldly of values, rights, identities, and expectations. Their language struck a chord for most …

In 1965 when Professor Nikki Keddie, in the preface of her first book Religion and Rebellion
in Iran: The Tobacco Protest of 1891-1892, promised to publish" several" other books" on the …

Drawing on extended ethnographic research conducted over the course of more than two
decades, Andrew Canessa explores the multiple identities of a community of people in the …

Based on Enrique Mayer's 30 years of research in Peru, this collection of new and revised
essays presents in one accessible volume Mayer's most significant statements on Andean …