Flows of Violence offers a profound ethnographic exploration of the intricate relationship between violence and water infrastructure in one of Colombia’s most marginalized cities. This timely contribution underscores the urgent need for equitable infrastructure development and social justice, making it a pivotal text for understanding urban poverty and state dynamics in Latin America and beyond.

This book explores how Quechua alpaca herders in the Peruvian highlands sense and make sense of climate change through subtle shifts in their interactions with humans, animals, and landscapes. It draws our attention to complicated practices of being-in-relation in a time of global instability. By analyzing climate change from the ground up, this book asks what the alpaca herders of the Andes can tell us about the state of the planet.

Archaeological Structuration is a critical analysis of the theory of structuration and its utility in the study of societal development over deep time. Structuration theory was originally developed by Anthony Giddens in sociology and adopted piecemeal into archaeology. This book takes a closer look at its contributions to new materialism and develops novel ways to operationalize the theory in archaeological research in the twenty-first century.

On the conservation frontier of southern Chile, the lives of smallholding settlers, Indigenous Mapuche farmers, environmental activists, entrepreneurs, and conservation scientists all grapple with the enduring impacts of settler-caused environmental depletion, aspirations for a new ethics of care, and the promises of an ecotourism boom. Here, the question of what it means to be human is not simply an existential concern but the reflexive result of experiences of becoming human through and with nonhuman others in an increasingly uncertain world.

This book analyzes how inter-Indigenous linguistic and social difference in Puno, Peru, has been maintained and negotiated over time. Central to these processes are Indigenous women and how their linguistic and social practices—as well as the ways that they are discursively interpreted and idealized—influence the maintenance of Indigenous linguistic and social differences in the past while shaping new ideologies and understandings of Indigenous linguistic praxis and Indigenous ethnic differences.

Avocado Dreams tells the story of how and why Salvadorans migrated to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and how in the process they both transformed and were transformed by the region through their labor, culture, language, art, and ingenuity.

Rooted in Place traces historical transformations in the relationship between nature and imagined communities across three interlinked moments in the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the late nineteenth century in Mexico. It is the first major study of the relationship between understandings of nature and the creation of structures of rule within Mexico. The book intentionally weaves between environmental history, history of science, visual culture, and political history.

Gathering Together, We Decide foregrounds the voices of Ndé (Lipan Apache) women and their allies as they defiantly struggle against the construction of the border wall and militarization in South Texas and along the U.S.-Mexico bordered-lands. This archive of diverse materials—legal briefs, essays, poetry, and works of visual art—speaks to larger issues of Indigenous resistance, historical memory, and Indigenous self-determination.

In Carne de Dios, Homero Aridjis transports readers to the world of María Sabina, the revered Mazatec healer, and the sacred mushroom ceremonies that would captivate the global imagination during the 1960s counterculture movement. Through Aridjis’s lyrical prose, vividly translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts, we first journey to the mountains of Huautla de Jiménez in 1957, where Sabina’s veladas—mushroom rituals—draw seekers from across the world forever altering the course of Sabina’s life and the world’s perception of Mexico’s Indigenous traditions.

A Song for the Horses examines the role of nonhuman animals (and other beings) in the performance and maintenance of musical traditions in Mongolia. By playing their morin khuur, or ‘horse fiddles,’ to build more-than-human networks of relation, anthropologist K. G. Hutchins shows how Mongolian musicians use cultural heritage to imagine and build toward alternative futures beyond climate change and neoliberalism.

We Gon’ Be Alright: Resistance and Healing in Black Movement Spaces, 2012–2021 opens up the inner lives of Black activists and organizers to share their survival struggles and strategies for collective thriving. Rev. Dr. Stephanie M. Crumpton explores these dynamics during a period of Black radicalism that emerged with the election of the first Black president of the United States, white racist retaliation, social upheaval over police violence, and the impact of the COVID-19’s exposure of deep social inequities.  

This volume foregrounds agency in examining histories of how Indigenous people in lowland South America intentionally engaged with outsiders in colonial and postcolonial eras. Anthropologists and historians show how local people formed strategic partnerships to defend livelihoods, territory, and symbolic values, as well as to curb exploitation, predation, and threats.

Scarred Landscapes is a groundbreaking exploration of the rich and complex works of Caribbean Latinx artists. This book documents the work of ten influential artists of Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican descent, based in New York City from the 1970s to the present. Through their diverse practices, including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation, video, and performance art, these artists confront the legacies of colonial trauma and their own experiences of diasporic unbelonging and artworld marginality.

The Tarahumara Rebellion of 1690 examines a seventeenth-century Indigenous uprising in northern Mexico aimed at driving out Spanish miners, missionaries, and settlers from Tarahumara (Rarámuri) and Tepehuanes homelands. Historian Joseph P. Sánchez shows how the Indigenous rebellions in the northern Mexican borderlands during the colonial period were part of the overall Indigenous struggle for defense of homeland throughout the Americas.