scholarly journals Editing Latin American Antiquity in the Context of Global Changes

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-454
Author(s):  
Julia A. Hendon ◽  
Calogero M. Santoro
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
American Antiquity

Publications on American Indian Physical Anthropology 1952 — 1953

1954 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 72-74
Author(s):  
Erik K. Reed
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Physical Anthropology ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
American Antiquity ◽  
Incomplete Coverage

In a previous communication (American Antiquity 19-3, January 1953, pp. 290-91), I noted significant items in this field during the period 1948-1951, with probably incomplete coverage for the first half of 1952. Additions to that bibliography and this one will be appreciated by the present writer and by the management. First of all, in supplementation for 1952, must be mentioned the valuable compilation, with year-by-year general trend statements (taken from the Handbook of Latin American Studies) and a subject index: T. D. Stewart, A Bibliography of Physical Anthropology in Latin America: 1937-1948, published by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York, 1952.

Ancient Maya Defensive Barricades, Warfare, and Site Abandonment

2001 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel W. Palka
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Maya Lowlands ◽  
American Antiquity ◽  
Site Abandonment ◽  
Lowland Maya

In a recent report (Latin American Antiquity 11:283-299), Bruce Dahlin presents evidence from Chunchucmil, Yucatan, and other ancient lowland Maya centers, which indicates that low stone and earth barricade walls may have been important defensive constructions. He also postulates that population annihilation occurred during Maya warfare, particularly at Chunchucmil. In this commentary I explore alternative explanations regarding Maya defensive works and warfare derived from recent archaeological research and historic sources from the Maya lowlands. The existence of palisades or thorny bush on barricade walls, and more gradual abandonment of Maya sites during episodes of conflict, warrant further consideration and testing along with Dahlin"s intriguing hypotheses.

COMMENT ON BOOK REVIEW

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 640-640
Author(s):  
Lawrence Waldron
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Art History ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
American Antiquity ◽  
Animal Spirits ◽  
Caribbean Art ◽  
The University

In reading the recent LAQ review of my 2016 work, Handbook of Ceramic Animal Symbols in the Ancient Lesser Antilles (Roosevelt, review of Waldron, Latin American Antiquity 29:413–414), I was reminded how neglectful my own profession of precolumbian art history has been of ancient Antillean studies. Recognizing this important lacuna in the research, the University Press of Florida approached me with the possibility of writing two books on precolumbian Caribbean art. As pioneering works in this area, these books will be read by scholars mostly outside this area. They are bound to run afoul of readers who might think zoic (for formless animal spirits) is merely an overwrought version of zoomorphic (for physical representations of them), realistic means the same as mimetic or naturalistic, and trigonal ought to carry a meaning derived from geology rather than biology (e.g., trigonal clam shells) or the standard dictionary definition (i.e., “triangular in cross section”). Just two complaints in the LAQ review about my term usage could improve the book. Several times I used the word endemic instead of native inappropriately, and the word rectilinear should have been used more often than the vaguer geometric. The rest is quibbling. For example, my use of the term Amazonid (used similarly by preeminent Caribbean archaeologist Irving Rouse) to describe the culture of both Antilleans and Amazonians, is consistent with my insistence throughout the book that Antillean cultures, while partially derived from Amazonian ones, are not themselves Amazonian.

scholarly journals The Age of Migration Crisis

Tempo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-598
Author(s):  
Menara Lube Guizardi
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Global Discourse ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Political Governance ◽  
Latin American Countries

Abstract: The article analyzes the historical changes in the formulation of migration policies between the 19th and 21st centuries, summarizing the emergency of an “age of migration crisis”. The first section discusses why international migration poses a destabilizing problem for the Nation-state political conceptions. The second section emphasizes the intrinsic articulation of the global changes in human mobility and their political governance between the 19th and 20th centuries, identifying the four prevailing political paradigms on migrant cultural diversity that shaped public policies in the 20th century. The third and fourth sections deal with the emergence of the fifth cycle of international migration policies, which is characterized by the generalization of a global discourse that criminalizes migrants and refugees. The above will be followed by a critical perspective of the way migration has been treated in some Latin American countries.

scholarly journals The world’s fairs as spaces of global knowledge: Latin American archaeology and anthropology in the age of exhibitions

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Schuster
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
World's Fairs ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
American Antiquity ◽  
Mass Gatherings ◽  
Ancient Civilizations ◽  
World’S Fairs

AbstractAt the end of the nineteenth century, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru were among the countries participating in the most important world’s fairs in Europe and North America. These mass gatherings focused on national self-images as well as technological development and commodities, but the Latin American exhibition organizers also understood them to be transnational spaces that contributed to the mobility of persons, objects, and knowledge. In this context, the scientific display of pre-Columbian ‘antiquities’ was regarded as being as important as the participation in archaeological and anthropological congresses. By understanding the world’s fairs as ‘spaces of global knowledge’, this article highlights the agency of Latin American scientists, intellectuals, and collectors in the transnational endeavour to create a ‘Latin American antiquity’ at the fairgrounds. Although most fair attendees sought to study and display the pre-Columbian past in an objective manner, the older dream of (re-)constructing the splendour of America’s ancient civilizations never completely vanished.

Environmental Health in Latin American Countries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Augusto Cassanha Galvao ◽  
Volney Câmara ◽  
Daniel Buss
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Public Health Interventions ◽  
Environmental Interventions ◽  
Health And Well Being

The relationship between environment and health is part of the history of medicine and has always been important to any study of human health and to public-health interventions. In Latin America many health improvements are related to environmental interventions, such as the provision of better water and sanitation services. Latin America’s development, industrialization, and sweeping urbanization have brought many improvements to the well-being of its populations; they have also inaugurated new societies, with new patterns of consumption. The region’s basic environmental-health interventions have needed to be updated and upgraded to include disciplines such as toxicology, environmental epidemiology, environmental engineering, and many others. Multidisciplinary and inter-sector approaches are paramount to understanding new profiles of health and well-being, and to promoting effective public-health interventions. The new social, economic, labor, and consumption aspects of modern Latin American society have become more and more relevant to understanding the complex interactions in the region’s social, biological, and physical environment, which are essential to explaining some of the emerging and re-emerging public-health problems. Environmental health, as concept and as intervention, is simple and easily understood, but no longer sufficient to achieve the levels of health and well-being expected and required by these new realities. Many global changes such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and mass migrations has been identified as main cause of ill health and are at the center of the sustainable development challenges in general, and many are critical and specific public health. To face this development, other frameworks have emerged, such as planetary health and environmental and social determinants of health. Public health remains central to some, such as the improved environmental-health agenda, while others assign public health a relative position in a variety of overarching frameworks.

scholarly journals EDITOR'S CORNER

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Geoffrey E. Braswell ◽  
María Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Antiquity ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Past

The March 2017 issue of Latin American Antiquity brings with it momentous changes. It also marks the conclusion of our first term as coeditors. We think it important to let you know how LAQ has grown this decade and especially over the past three years, and to inform you of significant changes that commence with this issue.

scholarly journals EL RINCÓN DE LOS EDITORES

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
María Gutiérrez ◽  
Geoffrey E. Braswell
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Antiquity

Con el primer número del volumen 29 de Latin American Antiquity (LAQ) estamos muy contentos de poder anunciar buenas noticias para nuestros lectores y colaboradores. A partir de la edición de marzo 2018, el recuento anual de páginas de LAQ se incrementará a 880, al igual que American Antiquity (AAQ). Hace solo dos años se le asignaron a LAQ 576 páginas, por lo que esto significa un aumento del 53%, el mayor en la historia de la revista.

The Art of Becoming: The Graffiti of Tikal, Guatemala

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott R. Hutson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Altered States Of Consciousness ◽  
Altered States ◽  
American Antiquity ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Subjective Context ◽  
Rare Opportunity

AbstractIn their 1995 Latin American Antiquity article, Haviland and Haviland argued that the people who produced much of the graffiti of Tikal were depicting visions from altered states of consciousness. In this paper, I argue that there is room for alternative interpretations. Comparison with children"s drawings from across the world suggests that children or people without training in Maya representational conventions authored a portion of the graffiti. Though this portion may be small, the possibility that children were involved provides a rare opportunity to discuss the experience of childhood. I argue that the content of the graffiti and the inter-subjective context of its production reveal several processes of becoming. Among other things, the graffiti permit an account of how children learn: legitimate participation in a community of people with varied levels of experience. This relational understanding of graffiti production also provides grounds for considering innovation and transformation in the medium of expression. Finally, I argue that the act of representation gives young people a form of mastery over the themes they portray. This helps them to accommodate confusing or difficult relations in their lives and to harmonize with their world in such a way that makes them culturally intelligible subjects.

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