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This module introduces students to the anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean. The course offers a general historical and sociocultural overview and explores a wide array of topics ranging from the slave trade and repatriation claims to indigenous cultures and intellectual property rights, cultural heritage and mestizaje, modernity, ecological sustainability, and the famous anthropological debate about the Yanomami. For many scholars economic and social movements as well as political developments in Latin America have become a source of inspiration represented in a rich pool of anthropological literature and in texts written by Latin American intellectuals. Built on these writings and audiovisual material presented in the lectures we explore how anthropological approaches enhance our understanding of Latin America’s multicultural societies, protest cultures, gender relations, as well as its global economic and political power relations.
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