Argentina : contagious marginalities / Claudia Briones & Rosana Guber.- Bolivia : bridges and chasms / Rossana Barragaan.- Brazil : otherness in context / Mariza Peirano.- Colombia : citizens and anthropologists / Myriam Jimeno.- Ecuador : militants, priests, technocrats, and scholars / Carmen Martainez Novo.- Guatemala : essentialisms and cultural politics / Brigittine M. French.- Mexico : anthropology and the nation-state / Salomaon Naahmad Sitton.- Peru : from otherness to a sacred diversity / Carlos Ivan Degregori and Pablo Sandoval.- Race in Latin America / Peter Wade.- Language states / Penelope Harvey.- Legalities and illegalities / Mark Goodale.- Borders, sovereignty, and racialization / Ana M. Alonso.- Writing the aftermath : anthropology and "post-conflict" / Isaias Rojas-Perez.- Alterities : kinship and gender / Olivia Harris.- Vinculaciones : pharmaceutical politics and science / Cori Hayden.- Agrarian reform and peasant studies : the Peruvian case / Linda J. Seligmann.- Statistics and anthropology : the Mexican case / Casey Walsh.- Indigenous anthropologies beyond Barbados / Stefano Varese, Guillermo Delgado & Rodolfo L. Meyer.- Afro-Latin American peoples / Jaime Arocha & Adriana Maya.- Reconceptualizing Latin America / Lynn Stephen.- Places and academic disputes : the Argentine Gran Chaco / Gastaon Gordillo.- Disengaging anthropology / Alcida Rita Ramos.- On the frontlines : forensic anthropology / Victoria Sanford.- Collaborative anthropologies in transition / Charles R. Hale