{"title":"Temporal Dilution: Chemotherapy, Capitalism, and the Making of Cancer Time in Colombia","authors":"Camilo Sanz","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70061","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Through the ethnographic case of a man undergoing chemotherapy for prostate cancer at a hospital in Colombia, this article examines how chemotherapy schedules make toxicity clinically manageable while imposing rhythms that many patients cannot sustain. It develops an analytic framework centered on three interrelated temporal dynamics: temporal dilution, through which oncology distributes toxicity across recurring treatment intervals; time density, as those intervals become saturated by travel, waiting, paperwork, caregiving, economic precarity, and bodily exhaustion; and temporal dissonance, the misalignment between these clinical and lived temporal orders. The article shows how bureaucratic reproduction and infrastructural interruption shift the labor and risks of synchronization onto patients and caregivers, making structural violence a routine feature of chemotherapy rather than an exceptional breakdown. Attending to this dissonance reveals how inequality is enacted through the organization of medical time itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146800","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}
{"title":"Devotion in Motion: Pilgrimage in Modern Mexico","authors":"Andrew Aceves","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149048365","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}
{"title":"Carceral Citizens: Labor and Confinement in Puerto Rico","authors":"Ann Miles","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149048364","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}
{"title":"Life in Traffic: Women, Plants, and Gold along South America's Interoceanic Highway","authors":"Carole H Browner","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149011488","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}
{"title":"Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm","authors":"Emily Matteson","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70065","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149011489","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}
{"title":"Enlazar y Soltar: Tramas en la Atención del VIH en Misiones, Argentina","authors":"Miguel Alejandro Avalos","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70059","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article, based on ethnographic research conducted in a public health program in Posadas, Misiones, Argentina (2024–2025), examines the sociopolitical tensions surrounding care for people living with HIV (PLHIV) in a context of structural crisis and underfunding of the healthcare system. Drawing from critical medical anthropology and care studies, the analysis reveals a matrix of conflict: relational efforts to bind (<i>enlazar</i>) patients contrast with institutional mechanisms that lead the system to release (<i>soltar</i>) of those who drift away. Practices of binding are sustained by healthcare workers and affective networks that take on the logistics of care. In contrast, releasing crystallizes in the operational category of “restart” (<i>reinicio</i>). This reveals how the lack of systematization in follow-up functions as a biopolitical mechanism that externalizes the cost of care, delegating responsibility to the individual and reinforcing the fiction of the autonomous patient.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943570","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}
{"title":"Framing “African”: Music, Dance, and the Politics of Identity in Guyana's Emancipation Day Celebrations","authors":"Gillian Richards-Greaves","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70060","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Emancipation Day commemorates the end of slavery and is observed annually by African Guyanese on the first Monday in August. Celebrations provide a space to honor ancestors, express gratitude, mourn, and engage in cultural rejuvenation through communal activities such as night vigils, libation ceremonies, drumming, dancing, and pilgrimages to historic sites of trauma. This article examines how Emancipation Day commemorations in Guyana function as performative spaces through which African Guyanese negotiate Afrocentric identity, ethnic boundaries, and national belonging in a racially polarized postcolonial society. It asks: “How do African Guyanese use Emancipation Day performances and rituals to construct and defend interpretations of Africanness amid political and cultural contestation?” Drawing on fifteen years of ethnographic research, the article argues that Emancipation Day celebrations have evolved beyond remembrance into cultural resistance and political expression, through which African Guyanese affirm ancestral heritage, contest marginalization, and reimagine their identity.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70060","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943569","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}
{"title":"Reciprocal Place-Making and Urban Indigeneity in the Rituals of Atun Puncha: The Carnival of Forgiveness in Bogotá","authors":"Liliana S. Naranjo","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70058","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines how reciprocal ritual helps displaced urban Indigenous communities create presence and belonging in Bogotá. Drawing on fourteen years of longitudinal ethnographic research (2011–2025), it traces the transformation of the Carnival of Forgiveness, known among the Inga as Atun Puncha (“the great day”) or Kalusturinda, from a segmented procession in Bogotá’s La Candelaria into a ceremonial circuit that moves through Colombia's civic, religious, and political center for 5 h. Organized by the Cabildo Inga de Bogotá, the celebration adapts <i>divichidu</i>, the Inga practice of reciprocal exchange through food, music, flowers, and presence at the heart of the Putumayo carnivals, to an urban setting, where those obligations are directed not only toward houses and elders but also toward administrative offices, monuments, and the Cathedral. I describe this process as reciprocal place-making: the repeated enactment of obligations to people, institutions, and living places through which Indigenous urban space gradually takes shape. In Bogotá, these practices help produce Indigenous territorial presence that legal recognition alone cannot secure.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148848625","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}
{"title":"Goodbye to the Caciques? Caciquismo in 21st-Century Southern Mexico","authors":"Pierre Gaussens","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70056","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article reflects on the persistence and transformation of caciquismo in twenty-first-century southern Mexico. Based on a systematic review of the scholarly literature, and an ethnographic case study in the municipality of Ayutla de los Libres, in the southern state of Guerrero, it questions narratives that portray caciquismo as an extinct political phenomenon. By combining critical theoretical insights with empirical fieldwork data, the article demonstrates that caciquismo has not only been reproduced but has also adapted to recent political and social changes. This adaptation has taken place through processes of municipalization, which have consolidated municipal governments as strategic arenas of cacique domination, and through processes of criminalization, as caciques have capitalized on the dynamics of violence generated by the war on drugs.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148617305","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}
{"title":"Temporalities of Development: Negotiating Promises and Disruptions in the Port City of Buenaventura","authors":"Pamela Nunez Basante","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70057","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines the temporal politics of development in Buenaventura, Colombia, through the lens of the Buenaventura 2050 megaproject. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and critical infrastructure studies, it explores how long-term plans for port modernization and urban renewal intersect with the lived realities of the city's majority-Black population. While development discourses promise progress, they also produce disruption, delay, and displacement. Using a critical approach to infrastructural temporalities, the article argues that Buenaventura's “suspended present”—a state in which progress and development are indefinitely postponed—is not only a temporal condition but also a racialized one: unbuilt projects and deferred promises disproportionately affect Black communities, reproducing historical patterns of inequality and exclusion. By centering the voices of local actors: port workers, community leaders, and scholars, it highlights the emotional and political tensions between state-led visions of modernization and the everyday experiences of waiting, resisting, and hoping.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148647878","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}