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The Territory of Memory from a Land of Sugar: Cas-cal, Cas-cal
English + Español
At my grandmother’s house in the rural town of El Santo, Villa Clara, I was in limbo. It was nearing noon, and I was anxiously awaiting a call from the head of Cuban security to obtain clearance.
Argentina 2023: Polarization Arises
English + Español
Argentina experienced a staggering 95% increase in prices in 2022, with poverty levels reaching an alarming 36.5%.
A Review of Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay
Size matters. Somewhat paradoxically, Uruguay’s small size—a country of three million—and relative political unimportance made it a key player in international conversations about human rights in the late 1970s.
From Our Current Issue
When the Water Rises, Inequality Overflows: A Tale of a Foretold Tragedy
Tatiane Flores, a physical therapist in her early twenties, arrived at the place where her first-floor apartment used to stand. All she saw was a pile of mud and debris. The acrid smell of dirty water still lingered in the air. “ Now I come here and don’t even know if I have a home anymore.
Waxing and Waning: Institutional Rhythms of Inequality
Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall was famous in her time, well-known as an archaeologist, an Americanist, an antiquarian, an ethnologist, a folklorist and “a lady scientist”; she was a woman “making it” in a man’s world from the 1880s to the 1930s. Deeply engaged in research about ancient civilizations in Mexico, she led a remarkable life as a pioneer in the evolution of anthropology as a field of study.
Urban Divide: The Structural Roots of Housing Inequality in Tijuana
The transformation hits you as soon as you cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
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
Performing Latinidad
At the end of the first day of class, I asked someone in the room if the course would be available the next semester or in the coming years. I wanted to take the class but wasn’t sure if it would fit…
An Empirical Analysis of Latin American Criminal Justice Systems
English + Español
My first jobs were in the Mexican justice system. For several years, I participated in innumerable trials and judicial decisions. I witnessed the consequences these processes have for the victims…
Walking, Counting, Bleeding: The Sacred Economy of Teotihuacan, Mexico
Since joining my middle school’s cross-country team, I have maintained a lifelong interest in distance running. To run in rural South Carolina, where I spent my earlier years, required the…
Book ReviewS
Paradise in Ashes
Traditionally, anthropologists have divorced themselves emotionally and physically from their subjects, placing the highest priority on objectivity and the role of the anthropologist as expert…
Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate
first met Kevin “Benito” Healy a little over four years ago at an information session he gave to a group of State Department Foreign Service officers on their way to assignments in the Andes. After the session, I asked Healy…
Despite the Odds: The Contentious Politics of Education Reform
In the 1990s, education policy in Latin America cried out for reform. Although literacy rates and access to education in Latin America had risen in previous decades, education reform became…
DRCLAS Podcast: Faculty Voices
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