Contemporary Cultures and Societies of Latin America: A Reader in the Social Anthropology of Middle and South America Book

	Preface
Pt. I	Latin America: Image and Reality	1
1	Why Latin America?	7
2	Constructing Culture and Power in Latin America	12
3	Anthropology and Human Rights in Latin America	18
4	Relationships among the World System, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecological Anthropology in the Endangered Amazon	31
5	A Retrospective View of the Harvard-Chiapas Project	50
Pt. II	The Anthropological Enterprise	63
6	An Experiment in Cross-Cultural Communications	73
7	Borders and Boundaries of State and Self at the End of Empire	77
8	A Handful of Ashes: Reflections on Tristes Tropiques	94
9	The Contributions of Applied Anthropology to Peasant Development	100
10	Language Preservation and Publishing	117
11	Worms, Witchcraft and Wild Incantations: The Case of the Chicken Soup Cure	129
12	Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans	135
Pt. III	Traditional and Modern Cultures	143
13	Indigenous Organizations: Rising Actors in Latin America	151
14	Hit and Run: The Stick-and-Ball Game as an Integral Part of Raramuri Culture	165
15	Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Field School in "the Other Cancun"	169
16	Market Vendors vs. Multinationals: David and Goliath Revisited	177
17	Restructuring Ethnicity in Chiapas and the World	182
18	Dona Flora and the "Informal Sector" Debate: Entrepreneurial Strategies in a Bolivian Enterprise	189
19	Changes in Drinking Patterns in Five Bolivian Cultures: A Cautionary Tale about Historical approaches	203
20	Ethnodevelopment and the Yuqui of Lowland Bolivia	214
21	Kuna Molas and the Global Economy	219
22	Ending Serfdom in Peru: The Struggle for Land and Freedom in Vicos	225
Pt. IV	Identity and Ethnicity	245
23	Jews in Latin America	251
24	No Longer Invisible: afro-Latin Americans Today	257
25	Ethnic Artists and the Appropriation of Fashion: Embroidery and Identity in Caylloma, Peru	266
26	Gringas, Ghouls and Guatemala: Fear of North American Women and Body-Organ Trafficking	273
27	Family, Social Insecurity, and the "Underdevelopment" of Gay Institutions in Latin America	284
28	Abstinence, Antibiotics, and Estar Jurado: The manners of Drinking in Working-Class Mexico City	303
29	The Day of the Dead as Mexican National Symbol	303
30	Body Paint, Feathers, and VCRs: Aesthetics and Authenticity in Amazonian Activism	319
Pt. V	Relations of Power	343
31	The Dynamic Contract in a Mexican Village	351
32	Local government in Bolivia: Public Administration and Popular Participation	366
33	Touching the Air: the Cultural Force of Women in Chile	372
34	Women in the Transition of Democracy: Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo	375
35	Studying Violence: Victims, Perpetrators, and the Ethnographer	384
36	God Is an American	399
37	The Culture of Poverty	408
38	The Aristocracy n Modern Mexico	418
39	Aspects of Group Relations in a Complex Society: Mexico	434
Pt. VI	Views of the World	447
40	When [actual symbol not reproducible]: Making Mathematics in Central Brazil	453
41	Minguito, Managua's Little Saint: Christian Base Communities and Popular Religion in Nicaragua	467
42	Hallucinogenic Plants in Indigenous South America Cultures	480
43	Forecasting Andean Rainfall and Crop Yield: Western Science and Folk-Wisdom	485
44	The Pragmatics of Conversion in the Brazilian Religious Marketplace	490
45	Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil	497
46	Empty Breasts and Empty Fields: A Mayan Subsistence Culture	505
47	The Healing Touch of Love	508
	Bibliographical Essay	515