{"title":"Exiled From Their Own Lands: Indigenist Policies, Oil, and Colonial Plunder in 20th Century Venezuela","authors":"Gabriel Tardelli","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70042","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70042","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation-state involved expanding physical, economic, ethnic, and moral boundaries, shaping both the country's landscape and its sociocultural and political relations. While oil fueled economic growth, Indigenous communities were marginalized due to territorial expropriation and state-led integration and assimilation initiatives. By tracing the actions of successive governments and the persistent presence of military and missionary groups, the study explores the intersections of capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism in nation-building, showing how power dynamics conditioned who would be included in the projects of modernity and who would be excluded.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70042","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147667978","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}
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{"title":"Wibana: How Bobonaza Runa and Forest Animals Know and Live With Each Other","authors":"James Beveridge","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70041","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Runa women living along the Bobonaza river in the Ecuadorian Amazon raise captured forest animals, in a practice called <i>wibana</i>. Runa women are attentive to the particular ways the <i>wiba</i> (raised) animals interface with the world, and learn the wibas’ communicative repertoires and are able to “read” what wibas sense in the forest, including dangerous beings. Runa and wibas come to know each other through processes of mutual familiarization and taming. Using concrete, ethnographic examples, I demonstrate the everyday practices that bring wiba and Runa livelihoods into alignment with each other and engender an intersubjective, interspecies relationship. I highlight the ways that wibas actively produce and mediate the relationship, including maintaining appropriate distance and boundary work to carve out status, positionality, and access to resources within the larger more-than-human community.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147637063","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}
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{"title":"Along the Silenced Footsteps of Latin American Pastoralists: From Mexico to Argentina, a Journey Through Pastoral Systems in Latin America","authors":"Greta Semplici, Pablo Manzano","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70040","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70040","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Pastoralism worldwide faces a complex landscape of increased pressures and exclusion. Beyond ecological and economic challenges, pastoralists suffer eroding cultural identity, limited generational renewal, and political marginalization. Yet pastoral livelihoods are increasingly recognized as stewards of sustainable futures and amongst the best food producers in a post-fossil world scenario. In such a struggle for socio-ecological justice, voices of Latin America pastoralists remain unheard both within regional debates and pastoral scholarship globally. With this article we explore the Latin American context to push conceptual, economic, and political boundaries that pose constraints for sustainable rural development. Rising voices of Latin American pastoralists reveal local agency, resourcefulness, and resistance. Critical notions of identity and feeling to belong tied to rootedness and “sense of place” emerge as particularly relevant, in contrast with conventional framings focused on environmental and economic constraints.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146096600","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}
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{"title":"Another Four Women: AfroCubana Entrepreneurs as Womanist Praxis","authors":"L. Kaifa Roland","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70039","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70039","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article is focused on four Black women entrepreneurs in Cuba's lucrative bed and breakfast home-based tourism economy, asking: (1) what intersectional factors facilitated their entrepreneurial enterprises, (2) how they conceptualize success, and (3) how their narratives illuminate patterns involving gendered race in the country's increasingly market-oriented context, and what opportunities might be on the horizon? Their narratives provide a praxis that demonstrates how despite their distinct paths to <i>cuentapropismo</i> (self-employment), socialist values largely shape their conceptions of success. Nonetheless, historic tropes from the prerevolutionary era involving White (or foreign) patriarchal gatekeepers reveal themselves, even with evidence of potential patrons who were previously inaccessible due to similar social marginalization. By centering these Black women's voices and experiences, this project uses womanism as theory in action.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70039","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145983507","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":"Paternalism, Maternalism, and Ventriloquism as Colonial Legacies in Mexico and Ecuador","authors":"Carmen Martínez Novo","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70037","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Being “white-mestizo” in Mexico and Ecuador is not only about skin color or phenotype, but also a way of acting that provides advantages to some groups over others. This article explores the privilege of claiming to protect and speak for others through a discussion of the concepts of paternalism, “maternalism,” and ventriloquism. Maternalism is highlighted given the important role played by upper- and middle-class, White-mestizo women as mediators in interethnic relations. Like <i>mestizaje</i>, speaking for others and becoming their advocate is a problematic promise of inclusion. The contemporary behavior of dominant groups is traced to colonial social relations congealed in legal figures that have lingered in Latin American legislation until recently. The article argues that these legal constructs continue to shape contemporary inter-ethnic relations, showing a close relation between law and custom. Finally, the article shows how patterns of paternalist and “maternalist” domination came to constitute a coherent and lasting system for the management of racialized populations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145891128","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}
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