The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

Cultural and Political Economies of Adoption in Latin America

This special issue of JLACA examines the practice and implications of adoption and fostering in Latin America. As part of the project of redressing the essentialism of family ties, many scholars have recognized the centrality of adoption, both in how it figures in the construction of kinship, and more broadly how it signals the multiple ways that political and economic regimes affect family-making.

Confronting Violence in Postwar Guatemala: An Introduction

Timothy J. Smith, Thomas A. Offit

A Cacophony of Autochthony: Representing Indigeneity in Oaxacan Popular Mobilization

Kristin Norget

In and Out of Rights: Security, Migration, and Human Rights Talk in Postwar Guatemala

Jennifer Burrell

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