Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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“Çété méné endan Lalwizyann”: The role of Haiti in representations of Louisiana Creole language and identity19
Voice and Nation in Plurinational Bolivia: Aymara Radio and Song in an Age of Pachakuti15
Irregularized Transits to the South: A Social Force in the Cross‐Border Spatial Dispute in South America13
Economías inflamables en tiempos de COVID‐19: La reventa de gasolina en la frontera de Venezuela–Brasil12
Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race. Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru. María ElenaGarcía. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. 291 pp.11
On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise: Affect, Tourism, Belize. KennethLittle. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2020. 190 pp.8
Settling environmental citizenship: The presentation of self in conservation encounters7
Voices in a Sea of History: Why Study Language in the Caribbean5
Commentary on “Explosiveness”: A sudden longue durée5
Extractivism's limits: A conversation4
Old Maya Palimpsests, Regenerative Copies, and a Modern Publication4
Popularizing Autogestión: Punk, Zapatismo, and Anarchist Ethics in Mexico City4
Decolonizing education through Ayuuk indigenous praxis: Three visions from Oaxaca, Mexico4
Reconceptualizing the Haitian Migration System in the Caribbean Basin: A Spatial Approach to Multi‐local Fields3
How the Guatemalan civil war became a genocide: Revisiting the 2013 trial of General Efraín Ríos Montt3
Transit as racialized space: Comparing perceptions of refugees along the Mexico–Guatemala border3
Sex trafficking by consent? Andean padrinazgo, illegal mining in Amazonia, and state intervention3
Water for Life2
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Surviving the Americas: Garifuna Persistence from Nicaragua to New York City. Serena Cosgrove, José Idiáquez, Leonard Joseph Bent, and Andrew Gorvetzian. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Pr2
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Comentario sobre “Explosiveness”2
LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua: Revolution, Dictatorship and Social Movements by KarenKampwirth. University of Arizona Press, 2022. 361 pp.2
Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin AmericaAna Y.Ramos‐Zayas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. 193 pp.2
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Bolivar's Sword: The Mapoyo and the Politics of Heritage‐Making in Venezuela1
Blackness, linguistic nationalism, and postcolonial class inequality in Haiti1
Archives, repatriation, agency, and changing circumstances: Reflections on shared soundscapes, collaborative activations, and repatriations in Latin America1
Yajé como política. Territorio, petróleo y pandemia en los siekopái de la Amazonía ecuatoriana1
Trends, Trendsetting, and Shifting Trends in Caribbean Anthropology1
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Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta1
Anti‐Haitianism and Statelessness in the Caribbean1
“A marriage without fidelity is a house without a foundation”: Black Brazilian women's demands for respect in marriage1
“I am going to break this logic of fear!”: Activism and subversive care at the periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil1
The Many Lives of a Journal1
Multiple territorialities and the shifting conservation frontiers of Patagonia1
Response to commentaries on ‘Recalcitrance: The foreclosure of news about violence in Mexico’1
Comentario sobre el Gamonalismo: Herencias, tensiones y resignificaciones1
La captura del viento: Energía eólica y la política de la renta en el Istmo de Tehuantepec, México1
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“En Bolivia lo hacen andar”: Régimen de mantenimiento, dimensión emotiva y prácticas de renovación vehicular del transporte colectivo de La Paz1
Rituals and Sisterhoods: Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750. Amos Megged. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2019. 301 pp.1
Latin American Social Medicine in Colombia: Violence, neoliberalism, and Buen Vivir1
Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador1
Memories before the state: Postwar Peru and the place of memory, tolerance and social inclusion By Joseph P.Feldman. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2021. 198 pp.1
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Shamanic alliance in the touristic borderzone: Strategic hospitality at Surama Eco‐Lodge in Guyana1
Resocializing recordings: Collaborative archiving and curating of sound as an agent of knowledge transfer1
Porousness, theater, possession, being consumed, death, sanctity: Narratives from the field with a radical street performer1
Deforesting the forest: Territory and relations in the Argentinean Chaco1
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A Book to Transmit Values: Yanomami Collaborations and Educational Will1
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Defensa comunitaria y culturas del terror: Crimen organizado y violencia de Estado en comunidades originarias de Guerrero, México1
From Local Community Studies to Migration Research or: When Does Caribbean(ist) Anthropology Cease to be Caribbean?1
“They study for six years. We study for generations”: Renegotiating birth, power, and interculturalidad in the Ecuadorian Amazon1
Un estallido animal: Animalización y antropomorfización en el conflicto político chileno1
Swap It on WhatsApp: The Moral Economy of Informal Online Exchange Networks in Contemporary Cuba0
Commentary on Gamonalismo0
Política estatal en territorio indígena: Los negocios étnicos turísticos (NET) en San Pedro de Atacama, Norte de Chile0
Carving Space and Time. Interruptions and (Un)Predictability in Infrastructural Design of Emeralds and the Mining Formalization in Colombia0
Pobrecitos: Determinations of deservingness in the Costa Rican asylum process0
Comentario sobre ‘Recalcitrance: The Foreclosure of News about Violence in Mexico’0
Frontier politics at the world's end0
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En tránsito por el norte de Chile: Desplazamiento forzado de población venezolana bajo el control fronterizo y sanitario durante la pandemia por COVID‐19 (2020‐2021)0
Rethinking Zapotec time: Cosmology, ritual, and resistance in colonial Mexico By DavidTavárez, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2022. 458 pp.0
Elusive coral and fish: Reconsidering the shore‐offshore separation in Caribbean archipelagos0
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Global ideals and restorative extraction: Negotiated Indigeneity on the margins of a Peruvian copper mine0
Downtown Juárez: Underworlds of Violence and Abuse. HowardCampbell. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 362 pp.0
Cannibalistic exchanges with mountain‐ancestors: Moral economies of gold mining in northern Peru0
Anthropologies of Our Caribbean Sea of (Is)lands0
Shared soundscapes: The (re)activation of an institutional and individual archive of Peruvian music and dance0
Cenizas By CynthiaGuardado. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press. 2022. 67 pp.0
From Banana Zones to the Big Easy: West Indian and Central American Immigration to New Orleans, 1910–1940. Glenn A.Chambers. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. 199 pp.0
Límites Confusos: Conflicto, Parentesco y Propiedad en un Antiguo Latifundio de Río de Janeiro0
Qualifying Violence: Visible Data, Invisible Lives in Recife, Brazil0
Coastal Lives: Nature, Capital, and the Struggle for Artisanal Fisheries in Peru. MaximilianViatori and HéctorBombiella. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2019. 232 pp.0
Estado, políticas públicas y comunidades: Aportes para repensar la antropología del Estado desde América Latina0
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Wayana Written Words vs. World Wide Web: Striving for Indigenous Authorial Autonomy Within a Digital Repatriation Project in French Guiana0
Unsettling extractivism: Indigeneity, race, and disruptive emplacements0
Nurturing the Other: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in AmazoniaVanessaGrotti. Berghahn Books, 2022. 212 pp.0
UndocumentsJohn‐MichaelRivera. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2021. 301 pp.0
Los Haitianos, las caravanas and transborder racial affect: Emotions and triangulated representations of Caribbean and Central American migrants in Mexico0
Three ways to fail: Journeys through Mapuche Chile By MagnusCourse, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2024. 184 pp.0
Obeah, Orisa & Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I ObeahTracey E.Hucks. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. 262 pp.0
Beyond the Idea of the Caribbean: Engaged Anthropology and the Transatlantic Caribbean0
In the shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster politics in highland Ecuador By A. J.Faas, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 2023. 246 pp.0
Narco‐spectrality: Narco‐aesthetics and hauntings in the short filmPánico en Pánuco0
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Unsettling the return: Alternative curation and counterarchives0
Commentary on ‘Recalcitrance: The foreclosure of news about violence in Mexico’0
A Future History of Water By AndreaBallestero. Durham: Duke University Press. 2019. 248 pp.0
Communities make communities: Comunidades nativas and gold mining among the Arakbut of Peruvian Amazonia0
“No Podemos Perder La Carrera”: How the Multiple Temporalities of Science Affect Scientific Knowledge Production in Mexico0
Guarded by Two Jaguars: A Catholic Parish Divided by Language and FaithBy EricHoenes del Pinal. Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press. 2022. 257 pp.0
Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras By Jon HorneCarter. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2022. pp. 3750
The Promise of Affect and the Enduring Economy of Emotions in Caribbeanist Anthropology0
Populist infrastructures: The aesthetics and semiotics of how obras do politics in Lima, Peru0
Decentered Universality: Towards Reciprocal Dialogues in Center/Periphery Writing0
Caribbeanist Anthropology and Minerva's Owl: Lessons Forgotten, Lessons Learned0
Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil. Marie‐EveCarrier‐Moisan, WilliamFlynn, and DeboraSantos. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 200 pp.0
The afterlives of political violence in Argentina: The gendered body and everyday cruelty0
“The pandemic came to teach us how to eat”: COVID‐19, mutual vulnerability, and native corn in Oaxaca0
Marginados y postergados en la obra de Fernando Ortiz0
Cuidando la Patagonia Azul: Prácticas y estrategias de los pueblos originarios para curar las zonas marinas del sur de Chile0
The Elusive Caribbean0
Delivering Health: Midwifery and Development in Mexico. Lydia Z. Dixon. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020. 224 pp.0
Race, Nation, and Diaspora in the Southern Caribbean: Unsettling the Ethnic Conflict Model0
Undocumented motherhood: Conversations on love, trauma and border crossing By ElizabethFarfán‐Santos, Austin: University of Texas Press. 2022. 129 pp.0
“You Taught Me Language; and My Profit on't.” Translation, Differential Authorship, and Frictions as champurria Collaborations in Indigenous and Anthropological Writing0
“Playing with the Bull”: Breeding, Blood, and Ritual in Multispecies Ethnography of Peruvian Bullfighting0
WhatsApp With the State: Digital Modernity and Network Politics in Lima's Peripheries0
Ethnography In‐Sight: Muñecas negras—Una oportunidad de redescubrirse0
Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals. Vania Smith‐Oka. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2021. 228 pp.0
Women's Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology By Florence E.BabbBerkeley: University of California Press. 2018. 304 pp.0
Brand JAMAICA: Reimagining a National Image and Identity. Hume Johnson and Kamille Gentles‐Peart, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. 214 pp.0
Discerning networks: Distortions of human movement in Urabá, Colombia0
Framing the allopathic approach to health and disease labels through patient narratives during the COVID‐19 pandemic first wave in Ecuador: An understudied and underutilized tool in health care practi0
Dancing with Life: Recontextualizing Mexican Masks0
La sombra alargada del patrón: Gamonalismo y hábitos hacendatarios en Chimborazo tras la reforma agraria0
Ethnography In‐Sight and Sound: Aural Politics and Haitian Mobile Vendors in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic0
The making of a conservation frontier: Nation‐building, green productivism, and environmentalism in Patagonia0
Imágenes de la muerte y necropolítica de la dictadura en Chile0
Ethnography in‐sight: Amasonic politics10
A Blessing and a Curse: Oil, Politics, and Morality in Bolivarian Venezuela0
Masculinity's (mis)fortune: Historicizing affect as extractivist infrastructure in Bolivian sodalite mining0
Brazil's Sex Wars: The Aesthetics of Activism in São Paulo0
Narco‐Infrastructures and the Persistence of Illicit Coca in Loreto0
Quechua and Aymara Textbooks in an Autonomous Education Project in the Kallawaya Region of Bolivia0
Living ruins: Native engagements with past materialities in contemporary Mesoamérica, Amazonia, and the Andes By PhilippeErikson and ValentinaVapnarsky (Eds.), Louisville, CO: University Press of Colo0
Repensar el gamonalismo: Habitus, resignificaciones y rupturas0
Recalcitrance: The foreclosure of news about violence in Mexico0
A Commentary on the Inclusion of the Dutch Caribbean within Caribbean Anthropological Studies0
A Fourth Shift: Women Factory Workers Working the Articulations of Caribbean Capitalism0
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After the Decolonial. Ethnicity, Gender and Social Justice in Latin America. DavidLehmann. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022. 252 pp.0
Fernando Ortiz's Transculturation: Applied Anthropology, Acculturation, and Mestizaje0
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On the Lack of Domestic Dogs in Pre‐Columbian Lowland Amazonia and Their Deep History of Entanglements With Humans in South America0
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Special Issue Introduction—Autonomy Through Collaboration: Memory and Media in Indigenous Print and Editorial Projects0
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Religiosidad entre migrantes latinoamericanos en la producción de bienestar: Intensificaciones, transformaciones y porosidades0
Identifying Indigenous people: Visual appearance, filiation, and the experience of race in an “Indigenous” soccer championship and in everyday life in Otavalo, Ecuador0
Bite Yu Finga!: Innovating Belizean Cuisine. Lyra H.Spang. Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2019. 274 pp.0
Racialized and moral‐religious politics of migrant acompañamiento: Informal hosting as local care entrepreneurship along migration routes0
Explosiveness: Territories of war and technoscientific practices in Colombia0
Traidores a la patria: Reconfiguring the nation through (un)patriotic discourse in the Dominican Republic0
Child circulation in disaster contexts: The case of the 2010 Haiti earthquake0
  Ethnography In‐Sight: Nation‐Making Objects0
Indigenous Divergences from the Sacrifice Zones and Rehabilitations of Extractivism When the Hills are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community. ThomasPearson. Minneapolis: University of 0
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Para aprender a viajar así: Movilidad en la vida de una mujer quechua By Michael D.Hill and GeorginaMaldonado. Quito: Universidad San Francisco de Quito Press / Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 20
The Intimate Force of Feminicidal Impunity: Towards a Sociality of Seeking Gender Justice0
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti. VincentJoos. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 240 pp.0
Feral Animals, Rastrojo, and Dispossession: Images of the Afterlives of War in Bajo Atrato, Colombia0
At a crossroads: Historicizing encounters with new racializations in the Central American and Mexican migratory landscape0
Colombian utopia and anti‐utopia: Remembering and reconsidering the FARC's Zona de Despeje, 1998–20020
Moral Panics, Viral Subjects: Black Women's Bodies on the Line during Cuba's 2020 Pandemic Lockdowns0
What the Caribbean Teaches Us: The Afterlives and New Lives of Coloniality0
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Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia. SusanEllison. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 281 pp.0
Paint It Black or Red: Serious Play in Brazil's Northeast0
Sound, Precarity, and Mapuche Reality in Urban Santiago0
Saint Martin de Porres “The Black Saint of the Afro‐descendant community in Quito‐Ecuador”: Between segregation, racism, and black resistance0
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Editors’ introduction to Sound “Repatriation” in South America: The Politics of Collaborative Archive Reactivations0
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Favela Studies: Disrupting Higher Education and Research on Brazil's Urban Periphery0
Comentario al gamonalismo0
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Problems with hierarchy and problems with tradition: The critique of male power in Afro‐Brazilian capoeira0
Dos Miradas a la Autenticidad: Nostalgia Sensorial y Nostalgia de Conquista en el Campo Culinario Mexicano de la Ciudad de Nueva York0
Truth and reparations: A perpetual challenge for the marginalized in Peru0
Latent Blackness: Afro‐Brazilian People, History, and Culture in São Paulo, Brazil0
Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender and Golf in Mexico. HugoCerón‐Anaya. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 217 pp.0
Maps’ agency and mountains’ multiplicity: Conflicts triggered by state maps involving pilgrims and desired mining futures in the Andes0
Dangerous winds: Criminal threats and the indigenized security of wind power in Colombia0
Universos chibchas: Nuevas aproximaciones a la unidad y la diversidad humana del área istmocolombiana. Editado por Juan Camilo NiñoVargas y StephenBeckerman, Colombia: Ediciones Uniandes. 2024. 375 pp0
The Caribbean: Following Connections instead of Fitting Things in Boxes0
El desvanecimiento de lo popular: gentrificación en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México. VicenteMoctezuma Mendoza. Mexico City: El Colegio de México/Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superio0
Strengths and Hopes for the Future: Ideas from a Long‐Time Caribbeanist0
Caribbean Anthropology: Challenges and Opportunities0
Contramedidas en Cabo Pulmo: La ciencia y la judicialización de conflictos ambientales en México0
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Entre el Atlántico y el Pacífico Negro: Afrodescendencia y Regímenes de Desigualdad en Sudamérica. Edited by ManuelGóngora Mera, RocíoVera Santos, SérgioCosta. Madrid: Iberoamericana‐Vervuert, 2019. 60
The Tyranny of Narco‐Power: Political Rule and Austere Domination in Michoacán, Mexico0
Ecotourism, infrastructures, and the drama of sovereignty on a border island0
Commentary on “Explosiveness”0
Living the popular solidarity economy as an entrepreneurial bureaucrat: Creating and reinforcing ethical frameworks through middle‐class consumption0
Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad. J.Brent Crosson.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.328 pp.0
Between conservation and care: Ontological mixtures and juxtapositions in protected areas of Patagonia, Argentina0
Comentario sobre ‘Recalcitrance: The Foreclosure of News about Violence in Mexico’0
Genres of listening: An ethnography of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires By XochitlMarsilli‐Vargas, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2022. 233 pp.0
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Embodying dependency: Caribbean godna (tattoos) as female subordination and resistance0
Competing Power: Landscapes of Migration, Violence, and the State. NarmalaHalstead. New York: Berghann Books, 2019. 256 pp.0
Ethnography In‐Sight and Sound: Rasanblaj and the Poetics of Creole Orality0
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Kinship by Coincidence: Episodes of arrival in travesti and transfeminine migration across Amazonian Peru0
Amazonia's Cassava and Manioc Through Historical Times0
The Last Out.A film by MichaelGassert, SamiKhan (Eds.), Tragon Productions and Oscura Film Inc. 2020. 90 minutes. Color0
Building a Non‐Farmhouse: Labor Migration, Construction, and the Decline of Peasant Agriculture in Rural Peru0
Engineering vulnerability: In pursuit of climate adaptation By Sarah E.Vaughn, Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 272 pp.0
Cultures of power and politics: Two cases of the limits of anti‐essentialism in the political anthropology of lowland South America0
Commentary on “Explosiveness”: Transnational retazos and reverberations0
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Response to commentaries to explosiveness: Territories of war and technoscientific practice in Colombia0
Loss and Wonder at the World's EndLaura A.Ogden. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. 200 pp.0
Ethnography In‐Sight: Digital Narco Terrorism0
Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power and Labor in Contemporary Yucatán. Matilde Córdoba Azcárate. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2020. 316 pp.0
Jumping on the Bus0
Ensayos de etnografía teórica: Andes. Colección EntreGiros, vol. 2. Óscar MuñozMorán (coord.). Madrid: Nola Editores, 2020. 407 pp.0
Producing ethical water: Anti‐mining activism and conflicts over municipal water provisioning in Cuenca, Ecuador0
Regenerating Maya‐Mam ways of governing, Indigenous emancipatory politics in the age of the extractive imperative0
Embodied Borders: Navigating Transit Migration Through Darién, Panama0
Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia0
Engendering “Illegality”: Blackness, citizenship, and Dominico‐Haitian motherhood0
Los precios de las esmeraldas colombianas: Formas parasitarias de habitar la formalización minera en Colombia0
Ethnography In‐Sight: Spiraling through Fieldwork0
Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica. Jovan Scott Lewis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 236 pp.0
The dispute for other legal knowledges in the judicial field: Indigenous territorial ontologies and mining extractivism in Guerrero, Mexico0
Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal. HannaGarth, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2020. 214 pp.0
Hacia una Escuela de Pesca Artesanal Sostenible en las Islas de Providencia y Santa Catalina (Caribe occidental): Contexto para un Modelo de Desarrollo Propio desde el Diálogo de saberes0
The Living Inca Town: Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes. KarolineGuelke. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 204 pp.0
Everyday Adjustments in Havana: Economic Reforms, Mobility, and Emerging Inequalities. HopeBastian. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. 182 pp.0
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Beyond Repair: Rethinking the Future in the Caribbean0
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