The Anthropology of Disasters in Latin America

Virginia García-Acosta is a Mexican social anthropologist and historian, as well as a teacher and researcher since 1973 in CIESAS, Mexico. Her research relates to disaster and risk from a historical-anthropological perspective, focused in Mexico and Latin America. Last book Les Catastrophes et l´interdisciplinarité (Louvain, 2017). Forthcoming Hurricanes in Mexico: Five Centuries of History and Memory (Mexico).

Foreword Ilan Kelman; Prologue Anthony Oliver-Smith; Introduction: Anthropologists studying disasters in Latin America: why, when, how? Virginia García-Acosta; 1. Risk and uncertainty in Argentinean Social Anthropology Ana Murgida and Juan Carlos Radovich; 2. The field of Anthropology of Disasters in Brazil: challenges and perspectives Renzo Taddei; 3. The Anthropology of Disasters that has yet to be: The Case of Central America Roberto E. Barrios and Carlos Batres; 4. Thinking through disaster: ethnographers and disastrous landscapes in Colombia Alejandro Camargo; 5. Anthropologies of Disasters in Ecuador: Connections and Apertures A.J. Faas; 6. The Mexican Vein in the Anthropology of Disasters and Risk Virginia García-Acosta; 7. Is there an Anthropology of Risks and Disasters in Peru? Fernando Bravo-Alarcón; 8. Anthropology of socio-natural disasters in Uruguay Javier Taks; 9. An epistemological proposal for the Anthropology of Disasters: The Venezuelan School Rogelio Altez; Index