Regular and intensive links between populations in the Lower Paraná and the Southern Andes, the Central Hills, and the Santiagueña Plains are evident in the most recent period of the Late Holocene. In this article, we summarize the small-scale and large-scale trade and exchange among these regions, which included not only material objects, such as metal, rocks, and shells, but also animals and intangible components, such as images and information. We conclude that since the latter half of the Late Holocene a macroregional system of integration based on symbolic complementarity included the Lower Paraná, the Central Hills, and the Santiagueña Plains. Objects and representations were instrumental in articulating a level of social integration in central-eastern Argentina and neighboring regions. We cannot fully understand the Indigenous societies of these regions without reference to the other peoples with whom they interacted through processes of trade and exchange.
{"title":"Prehispanic Macroregional Networks between the Southern Andes and the Lower Paraná River of South America","authors":"G. Politis, Luis E. Tissera","doi":"10.1086/725735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725735","url":null,"abstract":"Regular and intensive links between populations in the Lower Paraná and the Southern Andes, the Central Hills, and the Santiagueña Plains are evident in the most recent period of the Late Holocene. In this article, we summarize the small-scale and large-scale trade and exchange among these regions, which included not only material objects, such as metal, rocks, and shells, but also animals and intangible components, such as images and information. We conclude that since the latter half of the Late Holocene a macroregional system of integration based on symbolic complementarity included the Lower Paraná, the Central Hills, and the Santiagueña Plains. Objects and representations were instrumental in articulating a level of social integration in central-eastern Argentina and neighboring regions. We cannot fully understand the Indigenous societies of these regions without reference to the other peoples with whom they interacted through processes of trade and exchange.","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43179090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
On August 13, 2017, Rafael Lacava, the ex-mayor of the city of Puerto Cabello in coastal Venezuela, announced his intention to run for governor. He made the announcement via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Here, I follow Lacava’s campaign in the months before he became governor of Carabobo to trace the deployment of his affective and emotional performances in social media platforms. I argue that Lacava’s individual style and linguistic stance emphasized the enjoyment and spectacle that his performances produced in his on- and offline audiences and contrasted with the revolutionary rhetoric embraced by his own political party. This affective charge is what he and his followers called the “Lacava phenomenon.”
{"title":"Fenómeno Lacava: Spectacle, Enjoyment, and Stance in Venezuela’s Online Political Campaigning","authors":"J. L. Rodríguez","doi":"10.1086/725736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725736","url":null,"abstract":"On August 13, 2017, Rafael Lacava, the ex-mayor of the city of Puerto Cabello in coastal Venezuela, announced his intention to run for governor. He made the announcement via Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Here, I follow Lacava’s campaign in the months before he became governor of Carabobo to trace the deployment of his affective and emotional performances in social media platforms. I argue that Lacava’s individual style and linguistic stance emphasized the enjoyment and spectacle that his performances produced in his on- and offline audiences and contrasted with the revolutionary rhetoric embraced by his own political party. This affective charge is what he and his followers called the “Lacava phenomenon.”","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44965069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper focuses on Indigenous peoples’ experiences on National Route 86 in General José de San Martín Department, Salta Province, Argentina. In this area—as in many other parts of the Argentinian Chaco—cattle ranching and soybean plantations have radically transformed the landscape in the past forty years, thus increasing Indigenous evictions and land dispossessions. Agribusiness also radically transforms Indigenous experiences of land for those who manage to stay. Bringing together Indigenous memories about landscape changes due to land grabbing with a variety of experiences with and stances on agribusiness infrastructure, I argue that this infrastructure, experienced through material objects and activities, creates new spaces for Indigenous people to negotiate and contest how they live in this area, ultimately in some cases providing a way to push for territorial claims.
{"title":"New Spaces for Contesting and Negotiating Indigenous Land Claims in Northern Argentina","authors":"Natalia Castelnuovo Biraben","doi":"10.1086/725743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725743","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on Indigenous peoples’ experiences on National Route 86 in General José de San Martín Department, Salta Province, Argentina. In this area—as in many other parts of the Argentinian Chaco—cattle ranching and soybean plantations have radically transformed the landscape in the past forty years, thus increasing Indigenous evictions and land dispossessions. Agribusiness also radically transforms Indigenous experiences of land for those who manage to stay. Bringing together Indigenous memories about landscape changes due to land grabbing with a variety of experiences with and stances on agribusiness infrastructure, I argue that this infrastructure, experienced through material objects and activities, creates new spaces for Indigenous people to negotiate and contest how they live in this area, ultimately in some cases providing a way to push for territorial claims.","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48573292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Native trade networks are well described for the Greater Southwest from the archaeological and ethnohistoric records: trade goods passed between the Pacific and the Rio Grande along established pathways. But were the goods—including abalone shells from the Chumash and blue woolen blankets from the Hopi—transacted in a blind series of material relays, or do they embody geographic and sociocultural knowledge that was actively intercommunicated? According to Francisco Garcés, by June 1769, O’odham of the middle Gila River were already aware of the Portolá expedition’s arrival at San Diego at most two months after it occurred. And in 1771, during his travels in the Colorado delta, Garcés was asked by Kamia if he was looking for Hopis and Zunis. How far did Native knowledge networks extend? Focusing on Garcés’s accounts (1768–1776), this paper inquires into the active transmission of geographic and sociocultural intelligence throughout the Greater Southwest.
{"title":"Trading Goods, Disseminating Knowledge: Indigenous Intercommunication across the Greater Southwest","authors":"Peter M. Whiteley","doi":"10.1086/725739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725739","url":null,"abstract":"Native trade networks are well described for the Greater Southwest from the archaeological and ethnohistoric records: trade goods passed between the Pacific and the Rio Grande along established pathways. But were the goods—including abalone shells from the Chumash and blue woolen blankets from the Hopi—transacted in a blind series of material relays, or do they embody geographic and sociocultural knowledge that was actively intercommunicated? According to Francisco Garcés, by June 1769, O’odham of the middle Gila River were already aware of the Portolá expedition’s arrival at San Diego at most two months after it occurred. And in 1771, during his travels in the Colorado delta, Garcés was asked by Kamia if he was looking for Hopis and Zunis. How far did Native knowledge networks extend? Focusing on Garcés’s accounts (1768–1776), this paper inquires into the active transmission of geographic and sociocultural intelligence throughout the Greater Southwest.","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44167011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity: Cultural and Biological Approaches to Uncover African Diversity","authors":"L. Wadley","doi":"10.1086/724474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724474","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45547044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism","authors":"M. Thomann","doi":"10.1086/724479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724479","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41425420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":On Desert Shores: Archaeology and History of the Western Midriff Islands in the Gulf of California","authors":"T. Rick","doi":"10.1086/724468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724468","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44465517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":Pre-Columbian Art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks","authors":"L. Field, Loa P. Traxler","doi":"10.1086/724464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44592220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century","authors":"Hannah Gould","doi":"10.1086/724461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724461","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48562877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":Unveiling Pachacamac: New Hypotheses for an Old Andean Sanctuary","authors":"J. Quilter","doi":"10.1086/724465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724465","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47258,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anthropological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43261266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}