The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
October 8, 2026
Pablo Vega Romá
ABSTRACT This article examines emerging forms of spirituality among young Awajún men, closely linked to Indigenous leadership and Amazonian territory. It draws on ethnographic research conducted in Santa María de Nieva, in the northern Peruvian Amazon, to explore how these young men inhabit and reinterpret Amazonian space through their trajectories of mobility. Circulation across native...
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
October 8, 2026
Christopher Krupa
Bogotá Dreaming immerses readers in the feral dreamworlds of the discarded foot soldiers of Colombia's armed conflict and narco-economy as they try to survive through cycles of addiction and institutionalized recovery in Bogotá’s underworlds. The article is set in 2016–2017 but, like the dreams themselves, time in Romero's article is an elusive anchor, always present but not always in ways we...
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
September 1, 2026
Andrés Romero
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...
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
June 1, 2026
Michelle Leisky
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...
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
March 1, 2024
James Andrew Whitaker
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...
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
December 20, 2023
Julián García-Labrador
This article shows the political adaptations of the yajé ritual in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It focuses on the siekopái's practices of resistance, negotiation, and self‐affirmation around three contemporary issues: the recognition of their ancestral territory, the demand for reparations for environmental damage resulting from oil exploitation, and the management of care during the COVID‐19...
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
September 1, 2004
Alexandre Surrallés
18 citations
I Am Tsunki: Gender and Shamanism among the Shuar of Western Amazonia. Marie Perruchon, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology 33, 2003. 402 pp.
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
September 1, 2003
Gastón Gordillo
El objetivo de este artículo es realizar un análisis comparative) de la inscriptión de prácticas shamánicas en los campos de lucha y en la economía política del Chaco argentino. Basándome en fuentes históricas y etnográficas y en mi propio trabajo de campo entre los tobas occidentals, analizo cómo los shamanes han sido actores políticos involucrados en cambiantes formas de confrontación...