Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology最新文献

Rescripting Multiculturalism Into Points of Departure: Creating Multiple Futures Through Critical Interculturality by Students in a Maya-Spanish Bilingual Bachelor's Program in Yucatán 将多元文化主义改写为出发点：通过玛雅-西班牙语双语学士课程的学生通过批判性跨文化创造多种未来Yucatán

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-10-14 DOI: 10.1111/jlca.70071

Felipe Acosta-Muñoz

{"title":"Rescripting Multiculturalism Into Points of Departure: Creating Multiple Futures Through Critical Interculturality by Students in a Maya-Spanish Bilingual Bachelor's Program in Yucatán","authors":"Felipe Acosta-Muñoz","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70071","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines the experiences and narratives of students in the <i>Licenciatura en Lingüística y Cultura Maya</i> (“Maya Linguistics and Culture”—LyCM) at the Universidad de Oriente (UNO), a Yucatecan public university that is neither federal nor an autonomous intercultural university. Deans and officials determine the dress and logistics of the events in which students stage “Maya culture,” and students are cast as “cultural ambassadors” whose identities are folklorized as objects of display. Nonetheless, I argue that students do not merely absorb such folklorization. As the actors and creators of those performances, they transform them into myriad opportunities to build their own academic journeys, thereby making the LyCM a hub where critical interculturality flourishes. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted throughout 2023 and in the summer of 2024, and on interviews with students and non-students currently or formerly affiliated with UNO, I explain the institutional staging of “Maya culture” as an object for evaluation, and the everyday sociality in which students remake it on their own terms. Thus, critical interculturality at the LyCM becomes something students create through their experiences and narratives.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149205808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Acculturation as a Theory of Value: The Circulation of Goods Among the Korubo 文化适应作为一种价值理论：科鲁博人之间的商品流通

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-10-14 DOI: 10.1111/jlca.70067

Juliana Oliveira Silva

引用次数: 0

Commentary on Dreaming: Mattering Potentia 评梦：重要的潜能

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-10-10 DOI: 10.1111/jlca.70077

Kathleen Stewart

引用次数: 0

Commentary on Dreaming: The Vulnerable Dreamer 《梦：脆弱的梦想家

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-10-10 DOI: 10.1111/jlca.70075

Mauricio Najarro

引用次数: 0

Auguring the Demonic 预示恶魔

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-10-10 DOI: 10.1111/jlca.70078

Andrés Romero

引用次数: 0

Feeling Survivance: Indigenous Women, Qualia, and Clothing in Highland Guatemala 感受生存：危地马拉高地的土著妇女、夸利亚和服装

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-10-08 DOI: 10.1111/jlca.70074

Joyce N. Bennett

引用次数: 0

The Disaster of Arborization and What Wildfires Reveal in Central Chile 乔木化的灾难和智利中部的野火揭示了什么

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-10-08 DOI: 10.1111/jlca.70072

Marcelo González Gálvez, Valentina Turén, Fernanda Gallegos

{"title":"The Disaster of Arborization and What Wildfires Reveal in Central Chile","authors":"Marcelo González Gálvez, Valentina Turén, Fernanda Gallegos","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In the summer of 2017, the largest wildfires ever recorded in central Chile swept through and devastated the small logging town of Santa Olga. Within hours, decades of work by the timber industry and its laborers were wiped out, leaving no trace of what had been built. Alongside the destruction, the fire also exposed a deeper truth: for the Santa Olguinos, the catastrophe laid bare how the industry regarded their lives and belongings as no more valuable than the pine trees grown for cellulose production. Furthermore, Santa Olguinos seem deeply attached to their way of life, so much that, in the aftermath of the catastrophe, their only desire is to see it restored. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted during Santa Olga's reconstruction, this article examines the tragedy by tracing how the town's development and eventual destruction were shaped over decades of extractivism, which profoundly altered both the local environment and the lives of its people. In doing so, we deal with how fire acquires ambivalence in the eyes of the affected population; it appears as the necessary corollary to a history of savage environmental exploitation, but simultaneously allows to unmask the alienation, dependence, and domination at the core of those activities.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Territorial Youth Spiritualities: Indigenous Leadership and Amazonian Mobility 地域青年灵性：原住民领导与亚马逊流动

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-10-08 DOI: 10.1111/jlca.70070

Pablo Vega Romá

{"title":"Territorial Youth Spiritualities: Indigenous Leadership and Amazonian Mobility","authors":"Pablo Vega Romá","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70070","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines emerging forms of spirituality among young Awajún men, closely linked to Indigenous leadership and Amazonian territory. It draws on ethnographic research conducted in Santa María de Nieva, in the northern Peruvian Amazon, to explore how these young men inhabit and reinterpret Amazonian space through their trajectories of mobility.</p>\u0000 <p>Circulation across native communities, cities, educational institutions, workplaces, churches, NGOs, and political spaces fosters a constellation of relationships and practices that shape these young men's life projects and leadership. These trajectories combine elements of <i>tajimat pujut</i>—Awajún “good living”—with aspirations to improve personal and collective well-being, territorial memories, and forms of knowledge acquired in urban contexts. In a period of profound transformation in Amazonia—marked by environmental degradation, the promotion of extractive activities, the expansion of illegal economies, and intensified territorial mobility—new Indigenous generations articulate responsibility toward their people and forms of spirituality in dialogue with tensions among communal expectations, institutional demands, and their own desires.</p>\u0000 <p>This article argues that emerging contemporary forms of indigeneity express transformation rather than loss. Through the polyvalent forms of leadership they are forging, young Awajún men rework their relationship with Indigenous spirituality by articulating visionary plants, oral traditions, Christian discourses, and rights-based frameworks. In doing so, they make new aspirations visible while reaffirming their bond with territory and give shape to what this article terms <i>territorial youth spiritualities</i>.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Commentary on Dreaming: History and Untended Grief 《梦：历史与无意的悲伤》

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-10-08 DOI: 10.1111/jlca.70073

Christopher Krupa

引用次数: 0

Curating Military Victimhood: Humanitarian Counterinsurgency, Lawfare, and Accountability in Colombia 策划军事受害者：哥伦比亚的人道主义平叛、法律战和问责制

IF 0.9 2区社会学

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-10-08 DOI: 10.1111/jlca.70066

Andrés M. F. González Saiz

{"title":"Curating Military Victimhood: Humanitarian Counterinsurgency, Lawfare, and Accountability in Colombia","authors":"Andrés M. F. González Saiz","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70066","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how “military victimhood” was produced as a political technology in Colombia after the 2016 peace agreement with the FARC-EP. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted between 2017 and 2022, it traces how kidnapping, improvised explosive devices, and other forms of guerrilla violence were curated across military memory, education, intelligence, and advocacy into an authorized repertoire of victimization. I conceptualize this process as humanitarian counterinsurgency: the rearticulation of counterinsurgent governance through the languages of rights, care, and recognition while preserving a friend–enemy divide. Emblematic injuries suffered by some soldiers came to represent the Armed Forces as a collectively wounded institution. This enabled the military idiom of <i>guerra jurídica</i> (“legal warfare”) to recast investigations of abuses as persecution and extend suspicion toward judges, human-rights advocates, critics, and soldiers with disseting views. Experiences of conscription, command failure, and institutional abandonment remained difficult to recognize because they redirected responsibility toward the military itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70066","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0