[Linganth] Fwd: Call for Abstracts: "Insights on Latin America & the Caribbean: An Ethnographic Reader"

[Jennifer Guzman]

Dear linguistic anthropology colleagues,

Please see below for a call for contributions to a planned ethnographic
reader *Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean. *We would very much
like to include chapters focusing on language and linguistic rights issues
in the region.

Best regards,

Jennifer


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From: Melanie Medeiros <medeiros at geneseo.edu>
Date: Mon, May 3, 2021 at 10:14 AM
Subject: Call for Abstracts: "Insights on Latin America & the Caribbean: An
Ethnographic Reader"
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Call for Abstracts:

Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean: An Ethnographic Reader

Abstracts Due June 3, 2021

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 Insights 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.

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.

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. If you are interested in
contributing to Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean: An
Ethnographic Reader please send a 500-word abstract to
InsightsOnLAC at gmail.com by June 3rd.

Melanie A. Medeiros, Ph.D.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Coordinator, Sociomedical Sciences program
Department of Anthropology
SUNY Geneseo
Email: medeiros at geneseo.edu
Author of *Marriage, Divorce and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black
Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship*
<https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/marriage-divorce-and-distress-in-northeast-brazil/9780813588230>


-- 
Jennifer R. Guzmán, PhD (she/her/ella)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
State University of New York, Geneseo
One College Circle, Geneseo, NY 14454 USA
Phone: (585) 245-5174 - Fax: (585) 245-5633
Spring 2021 virtual office hours: Monday-Thursday 4:00-4:50pm
<https://geneseo.zoom.us/j/93341871133?pwd=Wm1wZUNXWkZ4ZDFRdkszTkxScjd2UT09>
https://www.geneseo.edu/anthropology/guzman
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