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Which countries are included and excluded from “Latin America”
- Countries included: Territories colonized by Spain and Portugal.Countries south of the US where romance languages are spoken
- Countries excluded: Haiti, French Guyana, Belize, Suriname, English speaking islands in the caribbean
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Some of the controversies are by the very name “Latin America”
- Presumes cultural, linguistic, or historical unity is the main way to classify these people
- Assumes that people in one country identify with another
- Nation states treated as “natural” units of difference.
- problematic bc it was inhabited before spain and portugal came. It was already home to other entities and empires such as aztecs, mayans, and incas. There's a diversity with different groups in this part of the world.
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concept of nation state
- ☀is a question of power
- ☀There is nothing natural about states in Latin America (or elsewhere).
- ☀its a human invention and social construction
- ☀Nation-states attempt to unite their populations around common histories, languages, cultures
- ☀constructs national identities of who is a member– imposing elite ideas on previously-existing territories and populations.
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For whom the term “Latin America” is useful
- people living outside of the region who acknowledge a “latin america” and sees their homeland and region in a new light. provides unitary feeling
- For left-leaning sectors that identify with anti-imperialist projects in the regional unity (e.g. The Bolivarian Revolution).
- For latin american scholars who need to identify the term with a specific area and people
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The main argument from the Alvarez et.al. article about Latin America Studies
- grapples with cold war and us imperial roots
- a process of re-visioning latin america a region that the US (other areas) have sought to control; it is necessary to be critical
- in contemporary we should rethink how we approach Latin America and Latin American Studies as well as the external processes that happened overtime
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Understand what it means to decenter Latin American Studies
(MMAGM)
- mainly US with their certain agendas
- mostly been white, male americans who have studied Latin America
- anthropological institute of latin america in US
- getting away from people who have power over research
- move beyond region proper.
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concept of culture in contemporary anthropology
- Culture IS NOT geographically bounded, static and homogenous (alike)
- Culture is mobile, dynamic, heterogenous (diverse)
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