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25
May

Women’s Place in the Andes . . . and in the World

This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Barcelona. Check for other posts from the conference. #LASA2018 by Florence Babb, author of Women’s Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist …

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25
May

Black Market Rights in Mexico City

This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Barcelona. Check for other posts from the conference. #LASA2018 by Andrew Konove, author of Black Market Capital: Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy …

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24
May

In Brazil, Plastic Surgery is About Power, Not Culture

This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Barcelona. Check for other posts from the conference. #LASA2018 by Alvaro Jarrín, author of The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital …

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24
May

All History is Biography

This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Barcelona. Check for other posts from the conference. #LASA2018 by Lawrence A. Clayton, co-author of A New History of Modern Latin America Unlike …

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23
May

A Fluid Practice

This post is written by Jim Logan and originally appeared on the website for the UC Santa Barbara Current. This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Barcelona. …

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01
Dec

Why I Study Beauty in Brazil

by Alvaro Jarrín, author of The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil This guest post is published in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association conference in Washington D.C.. Check back regularly for …

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03
May

Ephemeral Histories

This guest post is published in conjunction with the meeting of the Latin American Studies Association taking place April 29-May 1 in Lima, Peru. #LASA17 by Camilo Trumper, author of Ephemeral Histories: Public Art, …

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20
Nov

On Shopping Malls and the Politics of Access

by Arlene Davila, author of El Mall: The Spatial and Class Politics of Shopping Malls in Latin America This guest post is published in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association conference in …

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