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Why Knot Chacha? A Summer with the Khipus of Lagunas de Los Cóndores
While researching how to get to the town of Leymebamba, Peru, where I would be working in the community museum for the summer, I was met with three options.
Centering the Shipibo-Konibo in Tár (Todd Field, 2022)
My musician friend was curious what I would get out of seeing the movie Tár, seeing that I don’t have a music background.
A Review of When Misfortune Becomes Injustice
Taking care of patients in rural Haiti or in southwest Uganda, say, who are sick from diseases long since vanquished from the United States, in communities that did not get much access to Covid-19 vaccines when they were most critical, a healthcare practitioner might easily fall into despair.
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Weaving Memory through Fashion: The Magical Genesis of Equihua
Growing up in California, I spent so much time gazing at the sky, often losing myself in its vastness.
Unsubmissive Images
Hemetério José dos Santos (1858-1939), a Black grammarian and teacher at Rio de Janeiro's most important schools suffered racist attacks in the press because of the way he dressed.
Transnational Fashion on the Frontier: Migration and Modernities in the Brazilian Amazon
When you think of fashion, you might not think of politics.
Spotlight
Perspectives in Times of Change
Check out these reflections on social, economic, cultural and political transformations in Latin America, the Caribbean and Latinx communities in the United States.
StudEnt Views
MLAB Mentoring: A Weirdly Nostalgic Experience
As an MLAB mentor, I’ve had the opportunity to engage with Brazilian high school students and help them develop skills that they will hopefully keep using throughout their
The Venezuelan Gold Rush
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Control by armed criminal groups, sexual abuse of women and children, slavery, child labor, mercury poisoning, malaria outbreaks, malnutrition, torture, forced disappearances, forced
El Niño Fidencio: Healing Power of the Afflicted
A few years ago, during my first semester at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), I was shocked when Professor Davíd Carrasco lectured about his research on the transnational Mexican curandero
Book ReviewS
A Ditadura Acabada
The timing of the publication of the fifth and final volume of Elio Gaspari’s monumental history of the Brazilian military regime could not be more relevant. It is ironic that his new…
Spinning Mambo into Salsa: Caribbean Dance in Global Commerce
At a fancy yet packed bar in Tokyo’s most cosmopolitan district; at the patio of a bar in Vancouver facing the Canadian Rockies; at a hotel lounge bar overlooking the skyline of…
The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America
Despite its recent successes, the gay rights movement in Latin America is generally ignored in discussions of contemporary Latin American politics. Even students of Latin American social…
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