{"title":"Religiosidad entre migrantes latinoamericanos en la producción de bienestar: Intensificaciones, transformaciones y porosidades","authors":"Javier Jiménez-Royo","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70032","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The literature on the relationship between religion and migration has focused on how religion plays a key role in migrant adaptation processes. In this article, I focus on the importance of religious and spiritual practices for Latin American migrants seeking asylum in the United States before and during their journeys, as well as in the context of their entrapment in the city of Tijuana. To do so, and to show the complexity with which religiosity is expressed, I analyze cases in which people engage in practices that violate the boundaries between religious confessions and spiritualities. Given the difficult circumstances that push them to leave their homes and the adversities they encounter on their journeys, migrants frequently engage in practices to experience and produce well-being. On the other hand, religiosity in the migratory context intensifies, transforms, and becomes porous.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145751274","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":"Building a Non-Farmhouse: Labor Migration, Construction, and the Decline of Peasant Agriculture in Rural Peru","authors":"Susan Vincent","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70018","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines how residential architecture engages with lifestyles and livelihoods, permitting some activities while foreclosing others. Focusing on houses built by Teodora, her father, and her son in the Peruvian peasant community of Allpachico, I show how experiences of migration paid for and informed the designs of, and materials used in, each house, while structuring the social relations and aspirations of their owners. Farming remains important to some, but the peasant-worker of the past has given way to Lima-based migrants who maintain secondary residences in the community to offset the hardships of city life. The new houses are designed for accommodation and are adapted to current lifestyles; they are not amenable to storing crops and raising animals. This confluence of factors makes small-scale farming, a major producer of global food supplies, ever more difficult, even in rural hinterlands.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145739667","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":"Ch'ul Mut: Sacred Bird Messengers of the Chamula Maya","authors":"Christine Kovic","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70036","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145750997","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}
Ana Isabel Márquez-Pérez, Edgar Jay-Stephens, Laura Calle-Alzate
{"title":"Hacia una Escuela de Pesca Artesanal Sostenible en las Islas de Providencia y Santa Catalina (Caribe occidental): Contexto para un Modelo de Desarrollo Propio desde el Diálogo de saberes","authors":"Ana Isabel Márquez-Pérez, Edgar Jay-Stephens, Laura Calle-Alzate","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70023","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Artisanal fishing is essential for the food sovereignty and cultural identity of the Raizal people of Old Providence and Santa Catalina islands, Colombia. However, Colombian state intervention in the 20th century brought significant local transformations that negatively affected this activity and the associated knowledge. To address this problem, a group of researchers, fishermen, community leaders, anthropologists, and biologists proposed designing a sustainable artisanal fishing school, a pedagogical initiative that seeks to recover and strengthen traditional fishing knowledge and support a model of indigenous development. Against this backdrop, the article analyzes the historical and political context that supports the initiative, with particular emphasis on how internal colonialism and neoliberal multiculturalism have impacted island society and artisanal fishing. It also highlights the importance of local knowledge in an environment threatened by overexploitation and the loss of cultural identity. Finally, it addresses the school as a tool for the dialogue of knowledge and for fostering the autonomy of the Raizal people in their maritorium.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145751043","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":"Límites Confusos: Conflicto, Parentesco y Propiedad en un Antiguo Latifundio de Río de Janeiro","authors":"Mónica Fernanda Figurelli","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70021","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In this article I start from fieldwork carried out in the now defunct <i>Fazenda</i> Campos Novos, Rio de Janeiro state. I focus on the perspectives of its former inhabitants about the land conflicts that have occurred in the region since the 1950s. I attend to the “confusion” category with which my interlocutors refer to my questions. The “confusions” lead us to consider the kinships and histories through which people relate to territory and their opposition to property relations. From these, I intend to show the need, when analyzing land disputes, to look not at separate social spheres, but at their entanglements.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145739816","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":"Amazonia's Cassava and Manioc Through Historical Times","authors":"Laura Rival","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70034","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This provocation calls readers to think more deeply about the role anthropology could play in radically disrupting plant blindness. Thanks to Environmental Humanities, the natural world is no longer apprehended as a mere backdrop to human activity. The taken-for-grantedness of plants has given way to a recognition of their biological complexity. However, a preference for “relational” over “classificatory” thinking, linked to a desire to pay greater attention to nonhuman agency, has resulted in portraying “humanity” as a homogenous category. A rush to let vegetal voices be heard could lead to the silencing of forms of collective existence organized around values perceived to be essential for life to flourish. This risk can be avoided by applying the lessons of twentieth-century historical anthropology to the analysis of contemporary communities, whose assertions of the good life wax and wane according to complex historical and ecological dynamics. To show how anthropological methodology could best contribute to Environmental Humanities, I interrogate my early work on manioc domestication through a new kind of ethnographic exploration. A journey I took with two Waorani friends to a ribeirinho community on the Upper Rio Negro forms the starting point for a more intimate and intersubjective interrogation of the creative potential of cross-cultural exchange. On the basis of ethnographic insights triggered by this encounter, I revisit explanations of the historical and spatial divide between manioc brewers and manioc flour makers. I also re-analyze the historical role played by manioc flour during the rubber boom. I underscore the importance of history as lived and remembered. I conclude that environmental humanistic sensibilities may not be sufficient to explain the resilience of agrifood systems. The biological plasticity of manioc matters, but manioc becomes a protagonist only when people carry their memories through.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145739790","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":"Embodied Borders: Navigating Transit Migration Through Darién, Panama","authors":"Madeline Baird, K. Michelle Ordaz, Amanda Gabster","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70033","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The Darién Province separating Panama and Colombia has experienced unprecedented movement of people across its border since the easing of COVID-19 border restrictions in 2021. Panama established the “controlled flow” migration strategy in 2016 to manage “irregular” migration within its national borders as this flow rapidly increased in Darién Province. This policy provided basic services while containing people in reception centers after their journey across the Darién Forest. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Darién Province, we elucidate how the Panama-Colombia border transcends its geopolitical boundaries and shapes embodied borders based on the experiences of people excluded from legal migration pathways to North America. We examine how the “controlled flow” infrastructure in Panama constructs new systems of control and surveillance, embodied health impacts, and regimes of agency and migrant refusal after crossing one of the most treacherous borders in the world.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145739789","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":"Territorial Demands and Indigenous Memories in the Social Production of Victims in Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina","authors":"Guillermina Espósito","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70035","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article explores the relationship between territorial claims and long-term indigenous memories, analyzing their articulation in processes of victimhood and political subject formation. Drawing on the case of a death during a land conflict in the Andean town of Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina, it shows how collective memories of dispossession and struggle were reactivated, producing a figure of sacrifice that condensed historical grievances and contemporary tensions. The case demonstrates that the victim is not merely a passive condition but a generative political force, one that reconfigures territorial demands beyond judicial arenas and reframes conflict through symbolic and affective registers. The sacrificial figure of the Humahuaca-born “Pato Condorí” thus emerged as both a landmark in long-term land struggles and a site where more recent dynamics—such as the patrimonialization of the region and the consolidation of politically salient indigenous identities—became entangled.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145750444","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":"WhatsApp With the State: Digital Modernity and Network Politics in Lima's Peripheries","authors":"Kristin Skrabut","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70020","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article describes how digital technologies shape low-income urban Peruvians' experiences of the state as well as how longstanding state-society relationships inform the uptake and use of diverse digital technologies. To date, most scholarship on the digitalization of government has reinforced a dyadic imaginary of state-society relations: Either emphasizing the ways these technologies facilitate state efforts to administer and control societies or the democratic and resistant potentials of social media. By contrast, this research draws on long-term fieldwork in Lima's peripheries to argue that digital technologies enhance and concretize a networked, nodal, visibly mediated, but nontransparent form of governance, newly materializing the critical role that social networks have long played in constituting the Peruvian state.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145739901","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":"“You Taught Me Language; and My Profit on't.” Translation, Differential Authorship, and Frictions as champurria Collaborations in Indigenous and Anthropological Writing","authors":"Olivia Casagrande","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70031","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Building on an ongoing dialogue with co-editors Claudio Alvarado Lincopi and Roberto Cayuqueo Martínez, this article explores the process that redefined roles and relationships with and through writing. It investigates multivocal representations and collaborative writings, interrogating the possibilities and challenges of divergent positionalities in methodologies and epistemologies of co-creation that are simultaneously Indigenous, academic, ethnographic, and deeply engaged. “Performing the Jumbled City: Subversive Aesthetics and anticolonial indigeneity in Santiago de Chile” (MUP, 2022) results from a 4-year collaborative research project involving Mapuche activists, artists, and scholars. The book, structured as a map of Santiago, chronicles the Indigenous urban diaspora, emphasising creative and political acts of place-making. Connected to a website housing audio-visual materials, the volume experiments with multimodality, collective writing, and shared authorship. Editorial work and writing involved extensive review, feedback, and translation between individual and collective creation, and negotiations around choices of language, style, format, and forms of representation.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145129149","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}