¿Cómo las mujeres se implican, interpretan y gestionan la emergencia política y cultural indígena de las últimas décadas del siglo xx ;y los primeros años del siglo xxi? ¿Cuáles son sus proyectos de sociedad? ¿Qué experiencias orientan estos proyectos? ¿Cómo ven su futuro, en tanto que mujeres, indígenas y ciudadanas en el contexto de la globalización? Esta publicación es el resultado de un seminario de investigación, «Modernidad indígena, indigeneidad e innovación social desde la perspectiva de género», en el que se pusieron encima de la mesa todas estas preguntas y muchas más, en un debate tan actual como necesario. El libro es un material ineludible para conocer el constatado doble rol de las mujeres indígenas: garantes de la tradición por un lado, y gestoras de los cambios sociales y políticos de sus comunidades y grupos por otro.

¿Cómo las mujeres se implican, interpretan y gestionan la emergencia política y cultural indígena de las últimas décadas del siglo xx y los primeros años del siglo xxi? ¿Cuáles son sus proyectos de sociedad? ¿Qué experiencias orientan estos proyectos? ¿Cómo ven su futuro, en tanto que mujeres, indígenas y ciudadanas en el contexto de la globalización? Esta publicación es el resultado de un seminario de investigación, «Modernidad indígena, indigeneidad e innovación social desde la perspectiva de género», en el que se pusieron encima de la mesa todas estas preguntas y muchas más, en un debate tan actual como necesario. El libro es un material ineludible para conocer el constatado doble rol de las mujeres indígenas: garantes de la tradición por un lado, y gestoras de los cambios sociales y políticos de sus comunidades y grupos por otro.

Combining biomedical, psychological, and anthropological approaches to intergenerational incestuous violence experienced by rural indigenous [and] peasant women in the Andean region, this book raises new questions surrounding humanness and the normalisation of sexual violence. Through original ethnographical research, the author analyses Andean understandings of incest, medical positivist practices, as well as the psychiatric ‘treatment’ of incestuous and gender-based violence. The book examines the implications that psychiatric institutionalisation within the context of interethnic, gender, and class schemes, has on what it means to be human. It also draws on a theoretical framework in order to understand how discourses shape, and are simultaneously problematized by individual experiences of sexual violence and incest. Intergenerational incestuous violence against women is not necessarily an exceptional event, but can be an ordinary process, one where through the articulation of biomedical and indigenous medicine, as well as indigenous and mestizo forms of administration of political power, women as subjects can become possible. This book will appeal to scholars and students with an interest in gender-based violence, as well as mental-health practitioners and academics in Latin American studies, anthropology, gender studies, and sociology.

Based on an ethnographic study on the Andean Tri-border (between Chile, Peru, and Bolivia), this volume addresses the experience of Aymara cross-border women from Bolivia employed in the rural valleys on the outskirts of Arica (Chile’s northernmost city). As protagonists of transborder mobility circuits, these women are intersectionally impacted by different forms of social vulnerability. With a feminist anthropological perspective, the book investigates how the boundaries of gender are constructed in the (multi)situated experience of these transborder women. By building a bridge between classical anthropological studies on kinship and contemporary debates on transnational and transborder mobility, the book invites us to rethink structuralist theoretical assertions on the elementary character of family alliances.

From today’s vantage point it can be denied that the confidence in the abilities of globalism, mobility, and cosmopolitanism to illuminate cultural signification processes of our time has been severely shaken. In the face of this crisis, a key concept of this globalizing optimism as World Literature has been for the past twenty years necessarily is in the need of a comprehensive revision. World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise offers a wide range of contributions approaching the blind spots of the globally oriented Humanities for phenomena that in one way or another have gone beyond the discourses, aesthetics, and political positions of liberal cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization. Departing basically (but not exclusively) from different examples of Latin American literatures and cultures in globalized contexts, this volume provides innovative insights into critical readings of World Literature and its related conceptualizations. A timely book that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a mustread for all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of literature.

Cloth and Human Experience explores a wide variety of cultures and eras, discussing production and trade, economics, and symbolic and spiritual associations.

Analyzing the nuances of identity formation in rural Andean culture, Andrew Canessa draws on two decades of ethnographic research in a remote indigenous community in Bolivia's highlands.