ABSTRACT This narrative‐driven article explores the dream worlds of people in Bogotá’s downtown drug markets ( ollas ) and rehab centers ( patios ) following the Colombian state's 2016 militarized drug market raids. Drawing on twenty‐one months of fieldwork, it takes up dreams not as residues of a bounded psyche but as co‐constructed worlds where the dead and other forces act upon or orient the...
ABSTRACT This article examines Mexicanidad—an urban movement linked to Danza Azteca—as a contemporary reanimation of the Aztec past through ritual, discipline, and embodied memory. Based on long‐term ethnographic research in central Mexico (2009–2017), it argues that practitioners generate counter‐histories through ritual, moral labor, and visionary experience, treating oral transmission as the...
AbstractThis article explores how villagers in Surama form alliances with outsiders through strategic hospitality within the touristic borderzone. Surama is a primarily Makushi village in Guyana. Tourism began during the 1990s and is now central to the village economy. Villagers' efforts to form relationships with certain visitors (particularly tourist leaders) as partners or yakos through...