By ANA CAROLINA ASSUMPÇÃO Ler em português IN TIMES OF CRISIS, people come together for mutual support. This has not changed since the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. All over the world, people have worked together to mitigate the impact of the virus on society despite the fear of … [Read more...] about Black Women Who Move Mountains: Responding to Crisis in Rio de Janeiro’s Complexo do Alemão
COVID-19
To the Reader
ON FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020, The University of Texas at Austin announced that it was canceling classes and closing the campus due to community spread of COVID-19. From that day forward, members of the LLILAS Benson community began to figure out how we would live, work, support our loved ones, shop for … [Read more...] about To the Reader
The Pandemic at the Urban Margins: COVID-19 and Networks of Support in Buenos Aires
BY SOFÍA SERVIAN AND JAVIER AUYERO HOW DO THE URBAN POOR SURVIVE? Roughly half a century ago, anthropologist Larissa Lomnitz conducted fieldwork in Cerrada del Condor, a shantytown of about 200 houses in Mexico City, to answer just that question. The outcome of that field research was the … [Read more...] about The Pandemic at the Urban Margins: COVID-19 and Networks of Support in Buenos Aires
In Memoriam: Manuel Tahay
Leer en español BY SERGIO ROMERO & SUSANNA SHARPE LLILAS BENSON MOURNS the death of our beloved colleague and friend Manuel de Jesús Tahay Gómez, aka Tat Wel, who died of COVID-19 in Guatemala on August 14. He was 61. A revered educator and scholar of the Maya K’iche’ language and … [Read more...] about In Memoriam: Manuel Tahay
