The first single-authored comprehensive introduction to major contemporary research trends, issues, and debates on the anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean. The text provides wide and historically informed coverage of key facets of Latin American and Caribbean societies and their cultural and historical development as well as the roles of power and inequality.
Cymeme Howe, Visiting Assistant Professor of Cornell University writes, "The text moves well and builds over time, paying close attention to balancing both the Caribbean and Latin America as geographic regions, Spanish and non-Spanish speaking countries, and historical and contemporary issues in the field. I found the geographic breadth to be especially impressive."
Jeffrey W. Mantz of California State University, Stanislaus, notes that the contents "reflect the insights of an anthropologist who knows Latin America intimately and extensively."
About the Author: Harry Sanabria is a social anthropologist whose research and teaching centers on economic anthropology and political economy, social history and historical demography, and cross-cultural studies of drug production and consumption.
A Latin Americanist with primary interest in the Andean region, he has carried out field research on migration and coca production in Bolivia, drug use and dealing in inner city neighborhoods in New York City, and historical demography in Bolivia and Argentina.
He is currently engaged in a longitudinal and historically informed study of demographic trends and family/household forms in Bolivia and on the interplay of political economy, demography, and land use in the eastern flanks of the Bolivian Andes.
