{"title":"The Key to Authentic Pre-Columbian Fakes: The Racial Myth of the Natural Man and Its Mise-en-Scène","authors":"Laura Balán","doi":"10.1017/lar.2023.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lar.2023.56","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Alzate family, of Medellín, Colombia, grasped the magnetism of the Natural Man (a malleable myth with porous edges that combines both the Edenic and the cannibalistic visions of indigenous peoples) and its economic potential and orchestrated a family craft business of fake pre-Columbian pottery. They created pieces that would engage in dialogue with collectors’, anthropologists’, museums’, and tourists’ desires and imaginaries, as well as authenticity criteria, about indigenous pre-Columbian peoples. This article shows the relationship between these forgeries’ production, circulation, and consumption and the ways Latin American indigenous peoples have been conceived of by others. Moreover, this research stresses how authentic fakes, together with official and popular discourses and images, certain exhibition and validation rhetorics, and other mises-en-scène construct what is sacralized as uncontaminated, original, and traditional. Such fakes operate politically by undermining social hierarchies linked to essentialized race and identity.","PeriodicalId":47316,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Research Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138592251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fiscal Transfers between Buenos Aires and the Viceregal Interior at the End of the Colonial Period: Fall of the Situado and the Relation with the Regional Royal Treasuries (1800–1810)","authors":"Antonio Galarza","doi":"10.1017/lar.2023.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lar.2023.72","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study reconstructs remittances from different regional haciendas to the main treasury of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, located in Buenos Aires, between 1800 and 1810. It estimates the extent and periodization of the decline of the situado of Potosí during the last colonial decade, determining whether the contributions from regional treasuries made up for it. It also estimates the impact of transfers on the regional treasuries. By drawing on the accounting books of various treasuries, the article identifies the main mechanisms that the Royal Treasury of Buenos Aires implemented to seize surplus resources of the viceroyalty’s interior haciendas at the end of the colonial period. The ability of the Royal Treasury to seize those surpluses was significant and implemented through various mechanisms of the ancien régime.","PeriodicalId":47316,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Research Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138592417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Posjudaísmo en Buenos Aires: Deconstruir comunidad para consumir identidad","authors":"Lorena Peña Jiménez","doi":"10.1017/lar.2023.70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lar.2023.70","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Este artículo analiza la propuesta teórica del posjudaísmo articulada por el proyecto YOK en respuesta a la crisis del judaísmo institucionalizado en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Contrario a cualquier forma de pensar lo judío en términos tradicionales y normativos, el proyecto posjudío se planteó como una deconstrucción capaz de derribar los muros del judaísmo tradicional y, con el mismo movimiento, dar voz a aquellos judíos que no encuentran acomodo en las infraestructuras institucionales de la comunidad. Nuestra hipótesis es que su arquitectura conceptual, cuyo objetivo es conseguir la total liberación de las formas identitarias judías, termina legitimando una nueva servidumbre, esta es: la adaptación de lo identitario a la fluidez del mercado. Para demostrarlo, me detendré en reflexionar sobre cómo el posjudaísmo repiensa, desde el andamiaje de las filosofías posmodernas, la comunidad tradicional con el fin de proponer un judaísmo en las antípodas de este, un judaísmo basado en un trabajo de autocreación incesante que apele a lo plural, a lo abierto y a lo emancipado de toda norma y de todo dogma. Esto me permitirá demostrar cómo la autocreación es fruto de las dinámicas posmodernas de transformación de la subjetividad cimentadas sobre la emoción y la individualidad creadora.","PeriodicalId":47316,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Research Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138593450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Con(s)ciencia antisistema en la poética de Lina Meruane","authors":"Cora Lorena Requena Hidalgo","doi":"10.1017/lar.2023.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lar.2023.60","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 El siguiente artículo propone una revisión de los presupuestos temáticos y estructurales utilizados en las novelas de Lina Meruane Las infantas (1998) y Fruta podrida (2007), desde una perspectiva socioliteraria basada en algunas ideas desarrolladas por Slavoj Žižek en sus distintos análisis sobre la violencia, la ideología y el poder. El objetivo principal de este trabajo es descubrir si, a modo de actualización, Fruta podrida supone una reformulación de las premisas antisistema que movilizan a los personajes en torno a puntos centrales en ambas novelas como las corporalidades, la marginalidad o el exceso escatológico, entre otros.","PeriodicalId":47316,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Research Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138603256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Violence against Women and Girls, Discrimination, and Women’s Responses","authors":"Lynn Stephen","doi":"10.1017/lar.2023.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lar.2023.62","url":null,"abstract":"This essay reviews the following works:\u0000 Women’s Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology. By Florence E. Babb. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. x + 304. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 9780520298170.\u0000 Más allá de la reparación: Protagonismo de mujeres mayas en las secuelas del daño genocida. By Alison Crosby and Brinton Lykes. Guatemala City: Cholsamaj, 2019. Pp. 335. Q 155. paper.\u0000 Writing Terror on the Bodies of Women: Media Coverage of Violence against Women in Guatemala. By Sarah England. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. Pp. v + 434. $144.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781498530798.\u0000 The Force of Witness: Contra Feminicide. By Rosa-Linda Fregoso. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. Pp. x + 238. $25.95 paper. ISBN: 9781478019817.\u0000 Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA. By Nadia Y. Kim. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 384. $28.00 paper. ISBN: 9781503628175.\u0000 Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics. By Manuela Lavinas Picq. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018. Pp. xviii + 240. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 9780816540198.\u0000 Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America. Edited by Rachel Sieder, Karina Ansolabehere, and Tatiana Alfonso. New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. xviii + 494. $52.95 paper. ISBN: 9781032092461.\u0000 Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State. By Shannon Speed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 176. $27.95 paper. ISBN: 9781469653129.","PeriodicalId":47316,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Research Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138602826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carlos David Cardona-Arenas, Lya Paola Sierra-Suárez
{"title":"Remittances, Nonlabor Income as a Source of Hysteresis in Unemployment in Colombia, 2010–2020","authors":"Carlos David Cardona-Arenas, Lya Paola Sierra-Suárez","doi":"10.1017/lar.2023.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lar.2023.57","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study seeks to determine the impact of remittances and nonlabor income on the duration of unemployment, and therefore on the hysteresis phenomenon in Colombia for the period between January 2010 and January 2021. The long-term unemployment rate in Colombia (LAPU) is calculated, and a vector autoregressive (VAR) model is subsequently estimated to evaluate the impact of remittances and nonlabor income on the LAPU. The results suggest that the increase in nonlabor income significantly affected LAPU in Colombia in the period analyzed. The growth of remittances instead turned out to positively and significantly impact LAPU only during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. This suggests that remittances have become a fundamental income in times of crisis that allow for financing the search for work for a longer period of time, thus increasing the duration of unemployment and generating a hysteresis effect.","PeriodicalId":47316,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Research Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138602231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indigenous Groups in the Heart of South America","authors":"Erick Langer","doi":"10.1017/lar.2023.69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lar.2023.69","url":null,"abstract":"This essay reviews the following works:\u0000 Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay. By Shawn Michael Austin. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. Pp. xv + 365. $85.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780826361967.\u0000 The Grandchildren of Solano López: Frontier and Nation in Paraguay, 1904–1936. By Bridget Maria Chesterton. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 192. $50.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780826353481.\u0000 El Chaco Invicto: Las expediciones bolivianas al Pilcomayo (Siglo XIX). By Isabelle Combès. La Paz: Editorial El País/CIHA Centro de Investigaciones Históricas y Antropológicas 2021. Pp. 175. Bs 90 paper. ISBN: 9789997419095.\u0000 Warisata en la selva: El núcleo escolar selvícola de Casarabe entre los sirionó, 1937–1948. By Anna Guiteras Mombiola. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona; Cochabamba: Taller de Estudios e Investigaciones Andino-Amazónicas, ILAMIS, Itinerarios Editorial, 2020. Pp. 307. $36.87 paper. ISBN: 9788491683872.\u0000 Reimagining the Gran Chaco: Identities, Politics, and the Environment in South America. Edited by Silvia Hirsch, Paola Canova, and Mercedes Biocca. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2021. Pp. x + 349. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 9781633402862.\u0000 Don’t Cry: The Enlhet History of the Chaco War. Edited by Hannes Kalisch and Ernesto Unruh. Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022. Pp. xx + 291. $39.95 paper. ISBN: 9780228011682.\u0000 Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present. By Ben Nobbs-Thiessen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. xvi + 323. $39.95 paper. ISBN: 9781469656106.\u0000 New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy. By Brian P. Owensby. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. Pp. xv + 378. $32.00 paper. ISBN: 9781503628335.\u0000 The Guaraní and Their Missions: A Socioeconomic History. By Julia J. S. Sarreal. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 335. $70.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780804785976.","PeriodicalId":47316,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Research Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138601401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enduring Indigenous Histories across the Americas","authors":"Cynthia Radding","doi":"10.1017/lar.2023.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lar.2023.61","url":null,"abstract":"This essay reviews the following works:\u0000 Negotiating Autonomy. Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy. By Kelly Bauer. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. ix + 179. $ 46.00 hardcover. ISBN: 13: 978-0-8229-4666-3.\u0000 The Indigenous Paradox. Rights, Sovereignty, and Culture in the Americas. By Jonas Bens. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. x + 245. $ 70.00 hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-8122-5230-9.\u0000 Native Peoples, Politics, and Society in Contemporary Paraguay. Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Barbara A. Ganson. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2021. Pp. xv + 175. $ 29.95 paperback. ISBN: 978-0-8263-6257-5.\u0000 La frontera de arriba en Chile colonial. By María Ximena Urbina Carrasco. Valparaíso and Santiago, Chile: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and Centro de Investigaciones Diego Barros Arana, 2009. Pp. 354. Free ebook. ISBN: 978-956-17-0433-6.\u0000 Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America. By Pekka Hämäläinen. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2022. Pp. xv + 571. $ 32.00 hardcover. ISBN: 978-1-63149-699-8.\u0000 Saberes de la conversión. Jesuitas, indígenas e imperios coloniales en las fronteras de la cristiandad. Edited by Guillermo Wilde. Buenos Aires: Editorial SB, 2011. Pp. 592. $ 11.00 paperback. ISBN: 978-987-12-5693-8.","PeriodicalId":47316,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Research Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138604770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Williams Gilberto Jiménez-García, Wilson Arenas-Valencia, Natalia Bohorquez-Bedoya
{"title":"Comprensión del homicidio en las ciudades capitales colombianas. Un estudio de vulnerabilidad","authors":"Williams Gilberto Jiménez-García, Wilson Arenas-Valencia, Natalia Bohorquez-Bedoya","doi":"10.1017/lar.2023.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lar.2023.46","url":null,"abstract":"Resumen El presente artículo examina el fenómeno del homicidio en Colombia y busca comprender las condiciones de vulnerabilidad que afectan al homicidio en las ciudades colombianas. A través de un enfoque teórico y metodológico basado en la vulnerabilidad se analizó dicha relación entre la violencia homicida con los mercados ilegales, los mercados laborales pauperizados y la repartición de la riqueza. La muestra se compuso de las treinta y dos ciudades capitales departamentales de Colombia. Se usaron herramientas estadísticas multivariadas (PLS-SEM) para analizar la relación entre estos factores y el homicidio. Los hallazgos sugieren que los bajos ingresos, la falta de empleo, la desigualdad y la violencia están asociados con un mayor riesgo de homicidio.","PeriodicalId":47316,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Research Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135476172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of Economic-Social Performance of Two Socialist Economic Models: Cuba (Central Plan) and China-Vietnam (Socialist Market)","authors":"Carmelo Mesa-Lago","doi":"10.1017/lar.2023.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lar.2023.53","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article compares and evaluates performance of two main current socialist economic-social models. One is Cuba’s central plan characterized by state large enterprises predominant over the market and private property, with mild market-oriented structural reforms that are ineffective in generating sustainable socioeconomic development. The other model is the successful Sino-Vietnamese “socialist market,” typified by small, medium, and some large private enterprises and the market, all predominant under a decentralized plan (a guideline rather than a central plan). In this the state regulates the economy and controls the largest enterprises. The article identifies the characteristics of the three countries, addresses potential barriers to comparison, and summarizes a history of the reforms and their five key economic policies in the three countries. It also assesses performance based on a selection of the twenty most relevant and comparable indicators, elaborates a composite average to rank the three countries, and discusses potential methodological issues. The conclusions summarize the results of the comparison, recommend reforms for Cuba based on successful Sino-Vietnamese policies, and outline the research agenda for the future. The article is an important contribution to the fields of comparative economics systems, socioeconomic development, methodology, and Latin American studies.","PeriodicalId":47316,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Research Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135814050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}