Brooke Larson

SUNY: Stony Brook University, History, Faculty Member

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I<scp>n</scp> M<scp>emoriam</scp>: Elizabeth Dore (1946–2022)

The Americas, Apr 1, 2023

lizabeth Dore, a lifelong friend, colleague, and activist-scholar, succumbed to cancer at her hom... more lizabeth Dore, a lifelong friend, colleague, and activist-scholar, succumbed to cancer at her home in London on May 5. She left this world fighting against multiple illnesses so she could live long enough to complete her magnum opus on the oral history of the Cuban Revolution. Burdened by pain, and with only days left to live, Liz (as she preferred to be known) met with her editors in her home to put the final touches on the book project to which she had devoted many years of her life. This final act was emblematic of her courage and commitment during a lifetime of leftist politics, grassroots development projects, and historical scholarship that took her (often in the company of her late partner, the economist John Weeks) to Peru, Nicaragua, Cuba, England, and various regions of the United States. Liz Dore was schooled in the radical politics of the late 1960s. After graduating from Vassar College, she briefly enrolled in a graduate program in Russian history at Tufts University. Disillusioned with the program, she moved to New York. In 1971, she enrolled in the doctoral program in Latin American History at Columbia University. Although the 1968 student uprising was long over, Columbia was still a hotbed of leftist ideas, and its Upper West Side neighborhood provided fertile ground for extracurricular political activism. While she lived in New York, Liz worked and published with the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), an organization deeply involved in anti-imperialist and solidarity work with Latin Americans. Marxist study groups sprouted everywhere, and Liz postponed her dissertation field trip to Peru for a year so she could read and discuss Marx's Talmudic tomes of Das Kapital with local comrades. She also made her first trip to Cuba, with a solidarity team of graduate students and professors.

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In Memoriam: Thomas A. Abercrombie (1951–2019)

Colonial Latin American Review, Oct 2, 2019

Thomas Abercrombie succumbed to liver cancer in the prime of his scholarly life. Having invested ... more Thomas Abercrombie succumbed to liver cancer in the prime of his scholarly life. Having invested almost two decades in research and writing his second major monograph, Tom's new book, Passing to América: Antonio (née María) Yta's transgressive, transatlantic life in the twilight of the Spanish Empire (2018), appeared only months before he died. Waiting in the wings was another massive book project, tentatively entitled, 'Silver Leviathan' : geo-biosocial entanglements in the global city. Mountain and heritage site of Potosí (Bolivia), 1545-2018. And, as if those projects were not enough to keep this prodigious researcher occupied for decades at a time, Tom had started a new research project on a Spanish wine-growing region that recovered its 'virtual commons' (sense of cultural heritage and locality) against the atomizing forces of the global economy. This astonishing new body of work is, if I may be allowed a pun, vintage Abercrombie. All three projects sit at the intersection of Anthropology, History, and Theory. His ethnographic work plumbs the cultural depths of his Andean and Spanish subjects, while his historical horizons encompass the trajectories of transatlantic journeys, Potosí's silver mining economy, and commodity capitalism over five centuries. And, in the grand tradition of the Chicago school of symbolic Anthropology, Tom's granular approach to his subjects was enriched by his deep immersion in theory and methodology. The reader would be delighted by Tom's vivid depictions of plebeian life in the colonial mining town of Oruro; or Doña María's strange life and escape from the convent; or the intricacies of colonial mining technology. But the reader would also be privy to Tom's engagement with Bourdieu's concepts of habitas, schema, and field; or cultural theories on the interplay between 'narrativity and performativity,' or the 'intersectionality of sex and gender.' There were always many layers of meaning to excavate-to the delight of students in graduate seminars. But Tom's books were also infused with thick description-vivid stories based on deep archival research that grounded his occasional flights of theory. It was this rare interdisciplinary combination, and the interplay of genres of analysis and writing, that perhaps most distinguished Tom's scholarly contribution to Andean Ethnohistory. Long before he embarked on those three research projects, Tom Abercrombie made an indelible mark on the field of Andean Studies with the publication of his first book, Pathways of memory and power: ethnography and history among an Andean people (1998). Dropping his ethnographic anchor in the K'ulta villages of rural Oruro, Tom set out to study how the Aymara-speaking people of that region understood and represented their collective past of oppression and survival under almost 500 years of Spanish colonialism and republican domination. The research journey took Tom into the field, where he began work by studying the K'ulta's ritual forms of communal life and local statecraft. After a year or so in the field, Tom embarked on another year of archival research. What might have been a standard ethnography of Andean ritual life among the K'ulta grew into a monumental ethnohistorical study that explored the reciprocal interplay between Andean and European traditions of power and memory in dynamic, power-laden contexts over almost 500 years of colonial and postcolonial domination. As always, Tom pursued an underlying theoretical agenda, which tried to navigate

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Explotación y economía moral en los Andes del sur: hacia una reconsideración crítica

Historia Critica, 1992

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Indígenas, élites y Estado en la formación de las repúblicas andinas

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2002

Paisajes andinos del siglo XIX CAPÍTULO Dos Colombia: ¿hacia el mestizaje o la marginación de los... more Paisajes andinos del siglo XIX CAPÍTULO Dos Colombia: ¿hacia el mestizaje o la marginación de los indios? CAPÍTULO TRES Ecuador: la modernización de la servidumbre indígena como vía al progreso CAPÍTULO CUATRO Perú: guerra, soberanía nacional, y 'la cuestión indígena' 101 CAPÍTULO CINCO Bolivia: pactos peligrosos, indios insurgentes CONCLUSIÓN: La construcción de las repúblicas andinas y las cargas de 17 la 'raza' ENSAYO BIBLIOGRÁFICO 181 AL IGUAL que cualquier otra síntesis interpretativa, este libro desarrolla principalmente el trabajo de otros investigadores. Las notas fueron reducidas al mínimo, pero el extenso "Ensayo bibliográfico" presenta un cuadro global de la bibliografía histórica y antropológica que configuró, o viene configurando, nuestra comprensión de los cuatro temas principales arriba discutidos. Sin embargo, este libro no pretende ser el "estado de la cuestión", que en todo caso sigue siendo demasiado embrionario como para permitir tamaña pretensión. Pero sí tiende a privilegiar los estudios más antiguos de la historia campesina andina y la formación del Estado, así como el reciente giro a los temas de la historia cultural del poder, el significado y la subjetividad, en los procesos disputados de colonización interna y construcción nacional. Mi deuda más grande es, por lo tanto, con aquellos investigadores cuyas investigaciones de archivo y de campo inspiraron esta síntesis interpretativa. Asimismo hallé una amistad y respaldo duraderos en un grupo de investigadores y amigos andinos, demasiado numeroso como para citarlos a todos. Pero tengo un cariño y agradecimiento especial para con Rossana Barragán,

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Indígenas, élites y Estado en la formación de las repúblicas andinas

AL IGUAL que cualquier otra síntesis interpretativa, este libro desarrolla principalmente el trab... more AL IGUAL que cualquier otra síntesis interpretativa, este libro desarrolla principalmente el trabajo de otros investigadores. Las notas fueron reducidas al mínimo, pero el extenso "Ensayo bibliográfico" presenta un cuadro global de la bibliografía histórica y antropológica que configuró, o viene configurando, nuestra comprensión de los cuatro temas principales arriba discutidos. Sin embargo, este libro no pretende ser el "estado de la cuestión", que en todo caso sigue siendo demasiado embrionario como para permitir tamaña pretensión. Pero sí tiende a privilegiar los estudios más antiguos de la historia campesina andina y la formación del Estado, así como el reciente giro a los temas de la historia cultural del poder, el significado y la subjetividad, en los procesos disputados de colonización interna y construcción nacional. Mi deuda más grande es, por lo tanto, con aquellos investigadores cuyas investigaciones de archivo y de campo inspiraron esta síntesis interpretativa. Asimismo hallé una amistad y respaldo duraderos en un grupo de investigadores y amigos andinos, demasiado numeroso como para citarlos a todos. Pero tengo un cariño y agradecimiento especial para con Rossana Barragán,

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Review/Reseña Republics Without Citizens: Indigenous Peoples Confront the Nation and the State

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Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology:Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology

American Anthropologist, 1997

Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology. Br... more

Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia

En años recientes se ha visto un notable crecimiento de publicaciones académicas sobre el tema de... more En años recientes se ha visto un notable crecimiento de publicaciones académicas sobre el tema de medios indígenas en América Latina; crecimiento que corresponde, sin duda, a la expansión del objeto de estudio, es decir, de los proyectos comunicativos identificados como medios indígenas, comunitarios, ciudadanos, y/u otros nombres y formas de identificación aún por definir. Aunque el término "medios" puede abarcar muchas cosas, desde periódicos y otros impresos hasta proyectos radiofónicos y musicales, tan solo circunscribiéndonos al campo audiovisual, específicamente cine y video, encontramos mucho material para alimentar la conversación. Una pieza clave de esta bibliografía emergente es Indigenous Media and Political

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Colonial Legacies and Class Formation

Cochabamba, 1550–1900, 1998

Cochabamba:(Re) Construcción De Una Historia

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In Memoriam: Elizabeth Dore (1946–2022)

The Americas

E lizabeth Dore, a lifelong friend, colleague, and activist-scholar, succumbed to cancer at her h... more E lizabeth Dore, a lifelong friend, colleague, and activist-scholar, succumbed to cancer at her home in London on May 5. She left this world fighting against multiple illnesses so she could live long enough to complete her magnum opus on the oral history of the Cuban Revolution. Burdened by pain, and with only days left to live, Liz (as she preferred to be known) met with her editors in her home to put the final touches on the book project to which she had devoted many years of her life. This final act was emblematic of her courage and commitment during a lifetime of leftist politics, grassroots development projects, and historical scholarship that took her (often in the company of her late partner, the economist John Weeks) to Peru, Nicaragua, Cuba, England, and various regions of the United States. Liz Dore was schooled in the radical politics of the late 1960s. After graduating from Vassar College, she briefly enrolled in a graduate program in Russian history at Tufts University. Disillusioned with the program, she moved to New York. In 1971, she enrolled in the doctoral program in Latin American History at Columbia University. Although the 1968 student uprising was long over, Columbia was still a hotbed of leftist ideas, and its Upper West Side neighborhood provided fertile ground for extracurricular political activism. While she lived in New York, Liz worked and published with the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), an organization deeply involved in anti-imperialist and solidarity work with Latin Americans. Marxist study groups sprouted everywhere, and Liz postponed her dissertation field trip to Peru for a year so she could read and discuss Marx's Talmudic tomes of Das Kapital with local comrades. She also made her first trip to Cuba, with a solidarity team of graduate students and professors.

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