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WEEK |
DATE |
TOPIC |
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1 |
19/09 |
Introduction. Encounters of knowledge/practices |
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2 |
26/09 |
Andes and Amazonia: connections and continuities Clement, C.R., Denevan, W.M., Heckenberger, M.J., Junqueira, A.B., Neves, E.G., Teixeira, W.G. and Woods, W.I., 2015, August. The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest. In Proc. R. Soc. B (Vol. 282, No. 1812, p. 20150813). The Royal Society. Urton, G., 1998. From knots to narratives: Reconstructing the art of historical record keeping in the Andes from Spanish transcriptions of Inka khipus. Ethnohistory, pp.409-438. |
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3 |
3/10 |
Mayan worlds: Translations between worlds Hanks, W.F., 2010. Converting words: Maya in the age of the cross (Vol. 6). Univ of California Press. Lucero, L.J., 2002. The collapse of the Classic Maya: A case for the role of water control. American Anthropologist, 104(3), pp.814-826. |
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4 |
10/10 |
From colonial times to independent nation-states: mixing and professionalising medicine Cueto, M. and Palmer, S., 2014. Medicine and public health in Latin America: a history. Cambridge University Press. Löwy, I., 1990. Yellow fever in Rio de Janeiro and the Pasteur Institute Mission (1901-1905): the transfer of science to the periphery. Medical history, 34(2), p.144. |
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5 |
17/10 |
Modernity and development: controlling disease Cueto, M., 2007. Cold war, deadly fevers: malaria eradication in Mexico, 1955–1975. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. Briggs, C.L., 2004. Theorizing modernity conspiratorially: Science, scale, and the political economy of public discourse in explanations of a cholera epidemic. American Ethnologist, 31(2), pp.164-187. |
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6 |
24/10 |
Local biologies: genomic race and biomedicalisation of the body Edmonds, A. and Sanabria, E., 2014. Medical borderlands: engineering the body with plastic surgery and hormonal therapies in Brazil. Anthropology & medicine, 21(2), pp.202-216. Gibbon, Sahra. "Genomics as public health? Community genetics and the challenge of personalised medicine in Cuba." Anthropology & medicine 16, no. 2 (2009): 131-146. |
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7 |
31/10 |
FILM WEEK |
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8 |
7/11 |
Urbanisation and violence: the challenges of protecting life Han, C., 2012. Life in debt: Times of care and violence in neoliberal Chile. Univ of California Press. Introduction Rodgers, D., 2009. Slum wars of the 21st century: gangs, mano dura and the new urban geography of conflict in Central America. Development and Change, 40(5), pp.949-976. |
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9 |
14/11 |
Gendered technologies and the making of bodies: birth and hormonal modification Smith-Oka, V., 2009. Unintended consequences: exploring the tensions between development programs and indigenous women in Mexico in the context of reproductive health. Social Science & Medicine, 68(11), pp.2069-2077. Edmonds, A. and Sanabria, E., 2014. Medical borderlands: engineering the body with plastic surgery and hormonal therapies in Brazil. Anthropology & medicine, 21(2), pp.202-216. |
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10 |
21/11 |
Indigenous peoples: taking alterity seriously Fausto, C., 2002. The bones affair: indigenous knowledge practices in contact situations seen from an Amazonian case. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 8(4), pp.669-690. De la Cadena, M., 2010. Indigenous cosmopolitics in the Andes: Conceptual reflections beyond “politics”. Cultural anthropology, 25(2), pp.334-370. |
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11 |
28/11 |
Bioprospecting the forest: plants in a global economy Hayden, C., 2003. From market to market: Bioprospecting's idioms of inclusion. American Ethnologist, 30(3), pp.359-371. Shepard, G.H., 2004. A sensory ecology of medicinal plant therapy in two Amazonian societies. American Anthropologist, 106(2), pp.252-266. |
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12 |
5/12 |
Cybernetic technologies, media and state politics Medina, E., 2006. Designing freedom, regulating a nation: socialist cybernetics in Allende's Chile. Journal of Latin American Studies, 38(3), pp.571-606. Schiller, N., 2013. Reckoning with press freedom: Community media, liberalism, and the processual state in Caracas, Venezuela. American Ethnologist, 40(3), pp.540-554. Vancouver |
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13 |
12/12 |
Extractivism at the root of Latin American problems Escobar, A., 2003. Displacement, development, and modernity in the Colombian Pacific. International Social Science Journal, 55(175), pp.157-167 Svampa, M., 2015. Commodities consensus: Neoextractivism and enclosure of the commons in Latin America. South Atlantic Quarterly, 114(1), pp.65-82. |
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14 |
19/12 |
Co-llaborating! Learning and doing the world differently Radcliffe, S.A., 2012. Development for a postneoliberal era? Sumak kawsay, living well and the limits to decolonisation in Ecuador. Geoforum, 43(2), pp.240-249. Escobar, A., 2010. Latin America at a crossroads: alternative modernizations, post-liberalism, or post-development?. Cultural studies, 24(1), pp.1-65. |
- Professor: Johanna Susette Gonçalves Martin
