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Mary J Weismantel
Researcher at Northwestern University
Publications - 44
Citations - 1112
Mary J Weismantel is an academic researcher from Northwestern University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Consumption (economics) & White (horse). The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 43 publications receiving 1066 citations. Previous affiliations of Mary J Weismantel include Occidental College.
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making kin: kinship theory and Zumbagua adoptions
TL;DR: The biological definition of family at the root of functionalist kinship theory has been rightly criticized by contemporary feminist and symbolic anthropologists, but in retreating into an antinatural position such critiques simply recapitulate the limitations of an opposition between nature and culture in which the former is prior and essential, the latter secondary and historical as discussed by the authors.
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Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes
TL;DR: Weismantel's theory of race and sex begins not with individual identity but with three forms of social and economic interaction: estrangement, exchange and accumulation as discussed by the authors, and the barriers that separate white and Indian, male and female - barriers that exist not in order to prevent exchange, but rather to exacerbate its inequality.
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Race in the Andes: Global Movements and Popular Ontologies
TL;DR: In this article, a special issue on race in the Andes is presented, with an overview of the interrelated intellectual histories of racism, from colonial proto-racism to the totalising theories of the 19th century, to the heterogeneous "neo-racisms" found in the andes today, in which both these earlier ideas and contemporary cultural racisms are at home.
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Moche Sex Pots: Reproduction and Temporality in Ancient South America
TL;DR: The relationship between sex and reproduction has been variably defined, with many acts-including anal and oral sex-sometimes perceived as reproductive as mentioned in this paper, and the cross-cultural literature, especially from Melanesia and Amazonia, is used here to argue that the relationship between Sex and Reproduction has been widely defined.