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Gender, Class, and the Political Economy of Reproductive Change in Latin America
The research will focus on the decline of fertility in Puerto Rico during the first four decades after the 1898 United States occupation. It will examine the driving forces behind this decline, and center analytic attention on the mutually reinforcing post-1898 transformations in the realm of work and labor, gender relations, and marital/domestic arrangements that gave rise to class-specific reproductive regimes.
The struggle over coca in Bolivia represents the existence of a fundamental political, economic, social, and cultural cleavage between the Bolivian state and a significant segment of the militant coca producing peasantries.
1997. The discourse and practice of repression and resistance in the Chapare. In Coca, Cocaine, and the Bolivian Reality, edited by M. Barbara Leons and Harry Sanabria, The State University of New York Press, p. 169.
By focusing on what baptismal entries in a Bolivian parish reveal about the transmission of surnames, I have suggested a significant shift in local constructions of and relationships between birth status and surname transmission as a direct response to the profound legal, political, economic and social transformations brought about by the Bolivian revolution and agrarian reform of 1952-1953
Sanabria, Harry2001 Exploring kinship in anthropology and history: surnames and social transformations in the Bolivian Andes. Latin American Research Review 36(2):150
Harry Sanabria
Harry Sanabria (Associate Professor) received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1989.
He is a social anthropologist whose research and teaching primarily center on historical anthropology, political economy, and historical demography.
A Latin Americanist, he has carried out field research on migration and coca production in Bolivia, drug use and dealing in inner city neighborhoods in New York City, and historical demography in Bolivia and Argentina. He is currently engaged in a historically-grounded, political-economic, and interpretative analysis of how post-1898 colonial policies designed to reshape gender, sexuality, and domestic life ushered in class-specific demographic regimes in Puerto Rico.
Selected Publications
2007 The Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean. Allyn & Bacon.
2004 The state and the ongoing struggle over coca in Bolivia: legitimacy, hegemony, and exercise of power. In Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes edited by M.K. Steinberg, J.J. Hobbs, and K. Mathewson, pp 153-166, Oxford University Press.
2001 Bolivia. In Countries and Their Cultures. Vol. 1 edited by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, pp. 245-258, Macmillan Reference USA.