<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear linguistic anthropology colleagues,<div><br></div><div>Please see below for a call for contributions to a planned ethnographic reader <i>Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean. </i>We would very much like to include chapters focusing on language and linguistic rights issues in the region. </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div> </div><div>Jennifer<br> <div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Melanie Medeiros</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:medeiros@geneseo.edu" target="_blank">medeiros@geneseo.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, May 3, 2021 at 10:14 AM<br>Subject: Call for Abstracts: "Insights on Latin America & the Caribbean: An Ethnographic Reader"<br>To: <br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span id="gmail-m_8224879356726688674m_3148937784757803522gmail-docs-internal-guid-7c4627e2-7fff-52ca-96fb-5c342908e7a4">Please distribute widely. Apologies for cross-listing.</span></div><div><span><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Abstracts:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean: An Ethnographic Reader</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstracts Due June 3, 2021</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Editors Melanie A. Medeiros (SUNY Geneseo) and Jennifer Guzman (SUNY Geneseo) are seeking contributions for an ethnographic reader focused on Latin America and the Caribbean. The target audience for </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Insights</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> will be upper-level undergraduate courses. The aim of the reader is to provide a collection of compellingly-written case studies that examine the range of social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental issues facing contemporary communities across Latin America and the Caribbean, with a focus on ways that communities are dynamically responding to pressing challenges. Each brief chapter (max 5,000 words) will highlight the individual contributor’s research in a specific community and will employ an ethnographic approach to illustrate the perspectives and lived experiences of a particular community in the region. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rather than structure the book around geographic sub-regions, we anticipate organizing the reader in three thematic sections that represent trends in ethnographic research in the region. The first section will highlight cases that interrogate the construction of various social identity categories and the relationship between social identities, marginalization, oppression, and activism/resistance. We hope to include ethnographic case studies that examine issues surrounding racialization, ethnicity (including indigeneity), gender, sexuality, class, language, and citizenship or nationalism. The second section will include case studies focused on how people and communities across the region experience and respond to issues of inequality. The breadth of topics for this section can include inequities in health, healthcare systems, and healthcare access, territorial or housing rights, labor and exploitation, extraction of natural resources or climate change, language loss, violence (interpersonal, state, structural), migration, political participation, and grassroots social movements or activism. The third and final section will include chapters on topics such as kinship, religion, food, music, television, film, literature, art, dance, and sports. Because this reader is ethnographically-driven, rather than including chapters that give overviews of each topic, this reader will instead highlight people’s engagement with cultural institutions and cultural resources and the influence that cultural practices have on their lives. In keeping with the approach taken in the first two sections of the book, chapters in this section will continue the book’s discussion of the effects of power and inequality on people’s lives. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We welcome submissions from scholars and graduate students across disciplines, as long as the work is in keeping with the ethnographic focus of the reader. We will also accept revised versions of work previously published in American Anthropological Association journals, which permit the reprint of material with the author's permission. Completed chapters will be due November 1, 2021. Chapters should be 5,000 words long, and include a list of key concepts with definitions. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you are interested in contributing to </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean: An Ethnographic Reader </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">please send a 500-word abstract to </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:InsightsOnLAC@gmail.com" target="_blank">InsightsOnLAC@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by June 3rd.</span></p></span><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Melanie A. Medeiros, Ph.D.</div><div>Pronouns: she/her/hers<br>Associate Professor of Anthropology<br>Coordinator, Sociomedical Sciences program</div><div>Department of Anthropology</div><div>SUNY Geneseo</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:medeiros@geneseo.edu" target="_blank">medeiros@geneseo.edu</a></div><div><span style="font-size:small">Author of </span><a href="https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/marriage-divorce-and-distress-in-northeast-brazil/9780813588230" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small" target="_blank"><i>Marriage, Divorce and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship</i></a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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