Uprisings by indigenous peoples of Ecuador and Bolivia between 1990 and 2005 overthrew the five-hundred-year-old racial and class order inherited from the Spanish Empire. It started in Ecuador with the Great Indigenous Uprising, which was fought for cultural and economic rights. A few years later massive indigenous mobilizations began in Bolivia, ......
Capitalisms and Claims of Citizenship in Mexico and Peru
State Formation in the Liberal Era offers a nuanced exploration of the uneven nature of nation making and economic development in Peru and Mexico. Zeroing in on the period from 1850 to 1950, the book compares and contrasts the radically different paths of development pursued by these two countries. Mexico and Peru are widely regarded as two ......
Backyard gardens flush with cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers where bees buzz and chickens scratch. Beyond, a forest filled with blackberries and jewelweed. Inspired by childhood memories of his grandmother's overflowing backyard garden, author Andrew Flachs has embarked on a multi-continent, decades-long look at agriculture and its value. The ......
Backyard gardens flush with cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers where bees buzz and chickens scratch. Beyond, a forest filled with blackberries and jewelweed. Inspired by childhood memories of his grandmother's overflowing backyard garden, author Andrew Flachs has embarked on a multi-continent, decades-long look at agriculture and its value. The ......
In the shadow of Mexico's ongoing human rights crisis, Digging for Hope offers a powerful feminist ethnography of resistance, care, and collective memory. Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, R. AIda Hernandez Castillo documents the courageous work of women-led search collectives who, in the face of extreme violence, search for their ......
In the shadow of Mexico's ongoing human rights crisis, Digging for Hope offers a powerful feminist ethnography of resistance, care, and collective memory. Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, R. Aida Hernandez Castillo documents the courageous work of women-led search collectives who, in the face of extreme violence, search for their ......
Pueblo Community Persistence in the Northern Rio Grande
A powerful rethinking of resilience through the lens of Pueblo history, this work reveals how Tiwa communities in the Northern Rio Grande used culturally intentional strategies to adapt, transform, and endure across a millennium of change. Anthropologist Michael A. Adler introduces the concept of transilience-culturally intentional acts that ......
Locating the Intersections of Indigeneity and Latinidad
In this work, scholar Gabriela Raquel RIos considers how Latina/o/x communities engage in the ethical reclamation of indigeneity. Through case studies that include testimonios and other Indigenous storytelling practices, Rios reveals how cultural logics of colonization continue to shape-and often constrain-understandings of indigeneity across ......
A Local Narrative of Colonialism in the Peruvian Andes
Within just two generations, communities in the Peruvian Andes experienced conquest by the Indigenous Inka Empire (1450-1532 CE) and the European Spanish (1532-1821 CE), leading to three centuries of colonial subjugation. Reinvention and History Making in Huarochiri is an archaeological and historical rendering of the experience of the people of ......
