Historical photographs taken in Latin America have become key sites for memory politics, ethnographic imagination, and the negotiation of identity. This volume opens up a set of questions relating to the contemporaneous agency of images as well as their current appropriation via new technologies. Case studies of pictures taken in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil analyze these processes by tracing how the images have been resignified over time and space. The contributions examine photographs that have been recently rediscovered by such diverse actors as European museums, human rights...

Transatlantic Caribbean expands research on the region by focusing on its transatlantic interrelations with North America, Latin America, Europe, and Africa and its long-term exchange of people, practices, and ideas. Based on innovative approaches and rich empirical research from anthropology, history, and literary studies, the essays in this volume discuss border crossings, south-south relations, and diasporas in the arenas of popular culture, religion, and historical memory, as well as in the realms of national and transnational social and political movements. These perspectives...

Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how various media forms have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. Within new media spaces, the Ayuujk people carve out their own visions of development, modernity, gender, and indigeneity in the 21st century.