Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
456 p., Ethnographic study of an Afro-Brazilian center in Salvador, Bahia Brazil contributes to theoretical conversations in the anthropology of the body, medical and psychological anthropology, and relational psychoanalysis.
Chicago: University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
272 p., Analyzes the relations between macropolitical changes and the lives of people in Alcantara. Chapters detail: (1) the changing social, economic, and ecological lives of Alcantara's villagers; (2) the contested effects of recent multicultural governance in Brazil--specifically remanescentes das comunidades dos quilombos (escaped-slave descended communities); (3) how state-sanctioned experts in Alcantara help shape people's understanding of the region's deep social inequality; and (4) the circulation of rumors of US plans to undermine Brazil's space program and invade the Amazon forest.
