{"title":"Decentered Universality: Towards Reciprocal Dialogues in Center/Periphery Writing","authors":"Claudio Alvarado Lincopi","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70009","DOIUrl":"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":"2025-09-24","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":"Voice and Nation in Plurinational Bolivia: Aymara Radio and Song in an Age of Pachakuti","authors":"Anna Babel","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70028","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70028","url":null,"abstract":"","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":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145129060","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":"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":"2025-06-19","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}
{"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":"2025-06-19","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":"Dos Miradas a la Autenticidad: Nostalgia Sensorial y Nostalgia de Conquista en el Campo Culinario Mexicano de la Ciudad de Nueva York","authors":"Axel G. Elías Jiménez","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70013","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyzes the different expressions of authenticity, fidelity, and genuineness surrounding the Mexican culinary scene in New York. On the one hand, self-identified Mexicans express sensory and memory nostalgia during the production and consumption of foods they recognize as their own. For these individuals, the intersection of nostalgia and authenticity contributes to the formation of strategies that allow them to integrate into a new environment while maintaining ties and practices with their places of origin. On the other hand, there are expressions I call nostalgia of consumption and conquest (ersatz nostalgia). Although the convergence of terms seems to suggest a common ground for dialogue, I maintain that they frame distinct processes. To this end, the study is based on participant observation, a review of newspapers, and semi-structured interviews, which contribute to studies that revisit emotions as fundamental elements in the analysis of sociocultural phenomena, such as migration, and of some differences between the production and consumption of migrant food offerings.</p>","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlca.70013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323610","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}
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":"2025-06-19","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":"Water for Life","authors":"Nicholas Copeland","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70012","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323703","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":"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":"2025-06-19","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":"Dancing with Life: Recontextualizing Mexican Masks","authors":"Manuel R. Cuellar","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70015","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323611","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":"Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador","authors":"Larissa da Silva Araujo","doi":"10.1111/jlca.70014","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jlca.70014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45512,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323675","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}