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La reconceptualización de América Latina: Antropologías de las Américas
Author(s) -
Stephen Lynn
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the journal of latin american and caribbean anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.624
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1935-4940
pISSN - 1935-4932
DOI - 10.1525/jlca.2007.12.1.44
Subject(s) - latin americans , hegemony , empire , nationalism , power (physics) , state (computer science) , capital (architecture) , political science , field (mathematics) , ethnology , sociology , anthropology , geography , law , archaeology , physics , mathematics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , politics , computer science , pure mathematics
This article offers ideas for reconceptualizing Latin America through the discipline of Anthropology. I use the concept of "The Américas" to incorporate areas that have been geographically divided into North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean and to conceptualize flows of people, capital, and culture. On the one hand, my suggestions question the container of the nation‐state as our primary focal lens by considering transborder processes, identities, and institutions. On the other hand, I maintain that we still have to consider the "nation" in our discussions because of the strong historical presence of nationalism in creating categories that have powerful roles in defining how people are inserted into relations of power. My second area of emphasis is on the kinds of insights anthropologists based in Latin America and the Caribbean have offered which can help us rethink how U.S. Empire and global hegemony are part and parcel of the field within which we operate and participate in as natives and citizens.