Tag: Benjamín Ibarra Sevilla
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The Roque Dalton Archive at the Benson Latin American Collection
Author James Iffland, the pre-eminent biographer of Salvadoran revolutionary and writer Roque Dalton, writes about Dalton’s life and his important archive at the Benson Latin…
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Faculty Spotlight: Sandro Sessarego
BY SUSANNA SHARPE WE DON’T OFTEN STOP TO THINK about why we speak the way we speak, or how some of our linguistic habits came…
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Faculty Spotlight: Stephanie Leutert
BY SUSANNA SHARPE STEPHANIE LEUTERT IS NOT AFRAID to make a cold call and she does not shy away from difficult questions. If she wants…
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Cover Photographer: Adeloyá Magnoni
Adeloyá Magnoni is a photographer-activist who uses an anthropological lens to give voice and visibility to diverse sexualities, genders, Afro-religious traditions, social identities, and ethnicities.…
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So Close Yet So Far: How a Group of Deportees Is Building Rapport in Mexico City
Leer en español. BY ALVARO CÉSPEDES Ana Laura López, 43, was about to board a plane from Chicago to Mexico City on September 30, 2016.…
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Salmon Production in Chile: The Making of a Commodity Region
BY BEATRIZ BUSTOS CHILE is a country commonly known for its turbulent political past and its economic achievements over the last twenty years. Neoliberal policies…
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Cuba’s Revolutionary Comics: The Caridad Blanco Collection of Historietas Cubanas
BY ADRIAN JOHNSON COMIC BOOKS, originally created as entertainment for children, were long relegated to dime-store magazine racks, children’s bookshelves, and the cheap bin at…
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Interview: Gabriela Siracusano
ART HISTORIAN GABRIELA SIRACUSANO studies the material dimension of artistic production in artworks from the sixteenth century to the present. An internationally known and highly…
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Reconceptualizing Trans-Centered Research in 21st-Century Brazil
BY JOSHUA REASON FOR DAY OF THE DEAD LAST YEAR, toward the end of my Fulbright research in Salvador da Bahia, I attended “Elas Não…
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Indigenous Self-Determination and Drug Trafficking in Mexico’s Tarahumara Region
Leer en español. BY FÁTIMA VALDIVIA IN OCTOBER 2018, Julián Carrillo Martínez, an indigenous Rarámuri defender, was killed in his community of Coloradas de la…
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Reading between the Lines at Cajamarca
BY R. ALAN COVEY ON NOVEMBER 16, 1532, the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro seized a powerful lord named Atahuallpa during a surprise attack in the…
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Auto-Determinación Indígena y Tráfico de Drogas en la Región Tarahumara, México
Read in English. POR FÁTIMA VALDIVIA EN OCTUBRE 2018, Julián Carrillo Martínez, defensor indígena rarámuri, fue asesinado en su comunidad Coloradas de la Virgen, ubicada…