Professor Melanie Medeiros and Associate Professor Jennifer Guzmán.
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Publication
Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean, University of Toronto Press (2023)
Summary:
Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean brings together 36 chapters toexamine how communities across Latin America and the Caribbean are addressing the most pressing issues of contemporary life, including resistance against extractive industries, anti-Black racism, migration and transnational families, revitalization of Indigenous languages, art and solidarity in the wake of political violence, resilience in the face of climate change, and recent social movements.
Main research question:
How are contemporary communities across Latin America and the Caribbean addressing historical problems and new challenges?
What the edited collection adds to conversations in the field:
Most of the existing teaching books on the region are single-author textbooks or history books. Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean provides a collection of new scholarship, conducted by anthropologists and other field researchers whose work focuses on contemporary life in specific communities and highlights what people in these communities view as the most pressing problems they are facing today.
Novel methodology:
All of the chapters in this book are based on ethnographic research, which prioritizes long-term engagement and participatory fieldwork with communities on the issues that are important to them.
Citation:
Medeiros, Melanie A. and Jennifer R. Guzmán (editors). 2023. Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean. University of Toronto Press.