Reviews
"Florence Babb’s Women’s Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology is a refreshing and unique collection that puts Babb’s writings since the 1970s into dialogue with her more recent work and with contemporary feminist theory broadly. ... the book ultimately illustrates in a complex, multi-scalar way one of the most important talents of the successful anthropologist, in any part of the world: that of listening."—Journal of International Women's Studies
"The book offers important insights by providing a meta-reflection about conceptual, epistemological, and methodological tendencies and shifts. It will be a valuable source of inspiration and debate for experienced scholars and activists as well as novices for decades to come."—Anthropos
"[Babb's] book makes clear why the study of gender matters both as a discreet field of interest and a critical component of any modern social science research."—The Latin Americanist
"I know of no other similar book. It is engaging, accessible, critically insightful, and from beginning to end, touches on multiple key research areas of great interest to interdisciplinary feminist scholars, anthropologists, and Latin Americanists. It was a pleasure to read." —M. Cristina Alcalde, author of Peruvian Lives across Borders: Power, Exclusion, and Home
"What is of particular interest is Florence Babb’s engagement with feminist debates from almost the earliest years of what can be described as a feminist anthropology right through to current debates about decolonial feminism. The scholarship presented here has a unique perspective. I don’t think there is anyone else who has been as involved politically and academically in feminist debates in the Andes from an anthropological perspective and who can write so authoritatively about them."—Andrew Canessa author of Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life
"From an honest and self-critical perspective, Florence Babb shares her epistemological and political searches throughout forty years of scholarly work and construction of alliances with Peruvian women. A fundamental contribution to the decolonialization of feminist anthropology in the Andean region."—R. Aída Hernández Castillo, author of Multiple InJustices: Indigenous Women, Law, and Political Struggle
"In this invaluable contribution to feminist anthropology and Latin American studies, Florence Babb skillfully weaves together new writings in decolonial thinking with her own foundational work in gender analysis and economic anthropology in the Andes. The benefits go both ways: Babb shows how feminist ethnography, with its long, deep, personal and highly ethical relationships with marginalized, non-white and non-gender-conforming individuals, can bring to life the theoretical concerns of decolonial Latin American philosophers; and at the same time, she updates the long tradition of feminist ethnography by bringing it into conversation with newer theoretical and political trends. The links she makes between decoloniality and political economy are especially welcome in the current moment, as she shows us a feminist path towards linking concerns about precarity, gender, and race."—Mary Weismantel, author of Cholas and Pishtacos: Tales of Sex and Race in the Andes
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