{"title":"Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia","authors":"Ángela Castillo","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70011","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323702","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":"Popularizing Autogestión: Punk, Zapatismo, and Anarchist Ethics in Mexico City","authors":"Livia K. Stone","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70010","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Autogestión</i> (self-management), has been a popular articulation of radical politics since its emergence in the 1960s. This article examines how Mexico City's anarcho-punk scene transformed autogestión in the 1990s from an anarcho-syndicalist principle into a unique ethical practice detached from industrial material production. It was then popularized and made more mainstream through university rock festivals. As these were Zapatista benefit concerts, autogestión became inadvertently attached to Zapatismo and detached from anarchism and punk. This history is a crucial one for understanding the political development of an entire generation of the political left in Mexico City who were young in the 1990s. This article presents materials and oral histories at the intersections of punk and Zapatismo that are broadly relevant to an understanding of Mexican social movements but are not widely known or accessible. It is essential for understanding how autogestión practice and discourse is deployed in the 21st century.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323685","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":"Decentered Universality: Towards Reciprocal Dialogues in Center/Periphery Writing","authors":"Claudio Alvarado Lincopi","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This epilogue to the “Indigenous Printing and Editorial Cultures: Memory, Media, and Collaboration between and beyond indigeneity and anthropology” In-Focus Issue offers a critical reflection on Indigenous editorial practices and their implications for rethinking global frameworks of knowledge production. Drawing on scriptural genealogies such as Guaman Poma's and the Mapuche publishing tradition, the text challenges the notion that Indigenous writing is a recent or anthropologically mediated phenomenon. In dialogue with the articles in the dossier, it advocates for transforming center-periphery relations and building more reciprocal and horizontal intellectual circuits. From a Latin American perspective, it calls for the recognition of Indigenous intellectual sovereignty and its potential to contribute to a decentered universality—one where collaboration does not reinforce hierarchies but enablesnew forms of critical knowledge co-production.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145129192","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":"Irregularized Transits to the South: A Social Force in the Cross-Border Spatial Dispute in South America","authors":"Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nanette Liberona Concha","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70008","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines Venezuelan irregularized transits in South America, focusing on the dynamics of mobility and control that shape the southern corridor—a transnational space linking the Andean Region (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia) to the Southern Cone, particularly Chile. We explore how this mode of migrant mobility unfolds spatially, while simultaneously being shaped by—and resisting—the reinforcement of regional control mechanisms. Challenging the dominant narrative that frames irregularized transit migration as either a temporary stay or an “illegal” journey between two countries, we argue that it constitutes a heterogeneous, multitemporal, and multidimensional social force that redefines cross-border spatial struggles. Drawing on ethnographic material collected between 2019 and 2021, we analyze three interwoven dimensions of Venezuelan transit migration: political-economic, sociocultural, and subjective. As the article demonstrates, these dimensions generate multi-scalar spatial reverberations across the studied corridor.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323500","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":"Sound, Precarity, and Mapuche Reality in Urban Santiago","authors":"Luis Achondo, Leonardo Díaz-Collao","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70007","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Este artículo explora el papel del sonido durante la performance de la ceremonia mapuche <i>llellipun</i> en Santiago. Sostiene que los sonidos ceremoniales crean una experiencia inmersiva que facilita la intercomunicación entre humanos, espíritus y el ecosistema en un espacio eco-espiritualmente precario, haciendo audible una forma distintivamente urbana de pensamiento y existencia mapuche. Al establecer y hacer perceptibles relaciones humanas, no-humanas y más-que-humanas, la producción y sensación del sonido reafirman la presencia, a menudo negada, de fuerzas y entidades eco-espirituales en la ciudad —componentes centrales del mundo vivo mapuche. Sin embargo, este entrelazamiento de los órdenes antropológicos, ecológicos y cosmológicos facilitado por el <i>llellipun</i> difiere de contextos rurales mapuche. De hecho, la precariedad ecológica y urbana de Santiago, que dificulta la comunicación con la naturaleza y los espíritus, convierte al <i>llellipun</i> en un medio esencial de existencia mapuche, permitiéndoles reactivar una relacionalidad eco-espiritual que la urbanidad ciertamente ha obstaculizado, pero aún no ha destruido.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323616","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}
Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra, Cristiana Bertazoni, Felipe Vander Velden
{"title":"On the Lack of Domestic Dogs in Pre-Columbian Lowland Amazonia and Their Deep History of Entanglements With Humans in South America","authors":"Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra, Cristiana Bertazoni, Felipe Vander Velden","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70006","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Data from archaeology, ethnography, and ethnohistory document entanglements of dogs among South American Indigenous societies during pre-Columbian and colonial times. The prolific presence and uses of dogs in the Central Andes and in parts of the Paraná Basin, Patagonia, and Circum-Caribbean regions contrast with the conspicuous lack of records in pre-Columbian lowland Neotropics. The ontological perspective cannot explain this pattern. The dog arrived in the Americas domesticated; there are shared fundamentals of Amazonian and Andean ontologies. The Arawak expansion into the Caribbean records examples of dogs. Populations of endemic, pre-Columbian canids may have been tamed. There is a widespread use of dogs for hunting in current Amazonia, but the lack of other uses is noticeable. An exchange of dogs between Mesoamerica, the Andes, and the Caribbean is hypothesized based on skeletal and iconographic evidence. When adopting the European dog, Amazonian Amerindians applied a native category, the jaguar, to the exotic species.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323657","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":"Racialized and moral-religious politics of migrant acompañamiento: Informal hosting as local care entrepreneurship along migration routes","authors":"Nanneke Winters","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70000","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article contributes to understanding contemporary processes of racialization in the Central American migration landscape by looking at the residential reception of increasingly diverse groups of people on the move. Based on research in southern Honduras, it argues that we need to disentangle the racialized and religious politics involved with informal spaces of assistance or acompañamiento in contexts where migrants tend to stay temporarily. Engaging with the notion of acompañamiento through the hosting practices of ordinary citizens shows how racialization gets produced and reinforced in tandem with religious teachings, entrepreneurial considerations, and local migration anxieties. The article concludes that racialization is shaped through the histories and inequalities of place and confirms the intersectional nature of racialization, which incorporates religious identities and hierarchies. Highlighting how the challenges of acompañamiento help attend to shared experiences of injustice and persistent inequalities of human mobility, the article also contributes to broadening migrant trajectory research to the communities that surround migration routes.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707199","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":"At a crossroads: Historicizing encounters with new racializations in the Central American and Mexican migratory landscape","authors":"Nanneke Winters, Caitlin E. Fouratt","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70005","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This collection explores how contemporary racialization processes shape and are shaped by migration dynamics in the Central American and Mexican context. Marked by histories of migration and displacement, the region has become a critical crossroads for increasingly diverse populations on the move, from journeys of African, Asian, and Caribbean migrants through the region en route North, to dramatic increases in forced migration within Latin America. Drawing on ethnographic research from Costa Rica, southern Honduras, the Mexico-Guatemala border, and Tijuana, Mexico, the contributions examine encounters between migrants and local communities in spaces defined by histories of marginalization, displacement, and nation-building. This introduction underscores racialization as a central lens for understanding the experiences of people on the move, emphasizing how global migration regimes intersect with local inequalities to shape reception, exclusion, and belonging. By historicizing migration discourse and practice, the collection contributes to broader debates on mobility and belonging in the Americas.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707592","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":"Three ways to fail: Journeys through Mapuche Chile By Magnus Course, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2024. 184 pp.","authors":"Piergiorgio Di Giminiani","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70001","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707252","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":"Engineering vulnerability: In pursuit of climate adaptation By Sarah E. Vaughn, Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 272 pp.","authors":"A. J. Faas","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70004","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707253","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}