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  • Two people in traditional clothing stand inside a museum gallery with purple-lit glass display cases exhibiting pre-Columbian ceramic and metal artifacts.

    Entgrenzte Museen | Museos más allá de sus fronteras
    Vol. 1 (2022)

    “Entgrenzte Museen,” the title of this dossier in German, which may be translated or interpreted in Spanish as “Museos más allá de sus fronteras,” refers to processes and dynamics in which boundaries blur, fracture, and shift until they ultimately dissolve. The photograph selected for the cover of the first issue of Notas de Antropología de las Américas can be understood as a visualization of the new territories that emerge beyond the limits of museums.

  • A group of musicians in colorful traditional clothing march and play instruments on a highland landscape near a lake, surrounded by dry vegetation and fluttering ribbons or flags.

    Desigualdades y subversiones en las músicas de Latinoamérica
    Vol. 2 (2023)

    This issue focuses on power dynamics within the world of Latin American music—a complex field of relationships, imaginaries, hierarchies, agencies, and discourses that moves between inequality and the efforts to subvert it. Latin America has a long and diverse musical history that has not only served as the backdrop to profound political and sociocultural transformations, but whose protagonists have also been key actors in these processes.

  • People wearing Indigenous clothing work collectively at a large tree, extracting liquid from its trunk, while others carry containers in a rural landscape.

    Formas de resiliencia y apuestas para la vida digna en América Latina | Formen der Resilienz und der Einsatz für menschenwürdiges Leben in Lateinamerika
    Vol. 3 (2024)

    This third volume of Notas de Antropología de las Américas is devoted to the phenomenon of resilience and to diverse forms of resistance associated with contexts of crisis and conflict in Latin America. Our aim is to contribute to the analysis of the socio-economic, political, and (trans)cultural tensions that emerge from various struggles for more dignified living conditions. We start from the assumption that these tensions arise from multifaceted, long-term historical processes and coexist with practices, materialities, and spatialities that resist, subvert, or endure illegal, unjust, unequal, or anti-democratic circumstances.