Border Crossings (eBook, PDF)

Transnational Americanist Anthropology
Redaktion: Fine-Dare, Kathleen S.; Rubenstein, Steven L.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

For anthropologists and social scientists working in North and South America, the past few decades have brought considerable change as issues such as repatriation, cultural jurisdiction, and revitalization movements have swept across the hemisphere. Today scholars are rethinking both how and why they study culture as they gain a new appreciation for the impact they have on the people they study. Key to this reassessment of the social sciences is a rethinking of the concept of borders: not only between cultures and nations but between disciplines such as archaeology and cultural anthropology, between past and present, and between anthropologists and indigenous peoples.Border Crossings is a collection of fourteen essays about the evolving focus and perspective of anthropologists and the anthropology of North and South America over the past two decades. For a growing number of researchers, the realities of working in the Americas have changed the distinctions between being a "e;Latin,"e; "e;North,"e; or "e;Native"e; Americanist as these researchers turn their interests and expertise simultaneously homeward and out across the globe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska Paperback
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803222748
• Artikelnr.: 55972782

Autorenporträt

Kathleen S. Fine-Dare is a professor of anthropology and gender/women's studies and chair of the Department of Anthropology at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. She is the author of Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA (Nebraska 2002). Steven L. Rubenstein (1962-2012) was the director of the Research Institute of Latin American Studies and a reader in Latin American anthropology in the School of Cultures, Languages, and Area Studies at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Alejandro Tsakimp: A Shuar Healer in the Margins of History (Nebraska 2002).   Contributors: Barbara Burton, Les W. Field, Kathleen S. Fine-Dare, Sarah Gammage, Lêda Leitão Martins, Peter McCormick, John M. Norvell, David L. Nugent, Steven L. Rubenstein, Enrique Salmón, Jean N. Scandlyn, Linda J. Seligmann, and James A. Zeidler  

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Toward a Transnational Americanist Anthropology
      Kathleen S. Fine-Dare and Steven L. Rubenstein
Part 1. A New Compass for Americanist Studies
1. Racing across Borders in the Americas: Anthropological Critique and the
Challenge of Transnational Racial Identities
      John M. Norvell
2. The Politics of Knowledge and Identity and the Poetics of Political
Economy: The Truth Value of Dividing Bridges
      Linda J. Seligmann
3. Reinventing Archaeological Heritage: Critical Science in a North/South
Perspective
      James A. Zeidler
Part 2. Transamerican Case Studies
4. Bodies Unburied, Mummies Displayed: Mourning, Museums, and Identity
Politics in the Americas
      Kathleen S. Fine-Dare
5. Crossing Boundaries with Shrunken Heads
      Steven L. Rubenstein
6. Local Conflict, Global Forces: Fighting for Public Education in a New
York Suburb
      Jean N. Scandlyn
7. El Envío: Remittances, Rights, and Associations among Central American
Immigrants in Greater Washington DC
      Barbara Burton and Sarah Gammage
8. Global Indigenous Movements: Convergence and Differentiation in the Face
of the Twenty-First-Century State
      Les W. Field
9. What Can Americanists and Anthropology Learn from the Alliances between
Indigenous Peoples and Popular Movements in the Amazon?
      Lêda Leitão Martins
Part 3. Americanist Reflections
10. "That's Your Hopi Uncle": Ethical Borders in the Field
      Enrique Salmón
11. The Dust Bowl Tango: Looking at South America from the Southern Plains
      Peter McCormick
12. The Lizard's Dream
      Steven L. Rubenstein and Kathleen S. Fine-Dare
Afterword: Fordism, Post-Fordism, and Americanist Anthropology
      David L. Nugent
Contributors
Index