Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction (Kathleen S. Fine-Dare and Steven L. Rubenstein) Part I: A New Compass for Americanist Studies 1. Racing Across Borders in the Americas: Anthropological Critique and the Challenge of Transnational Racial Identities (John M. Norvell) 2. The Politics of Knowledge and Identity, and the Poetics of Political Economy: The Truth Value of Dividing Bridges (Linda J. Seligmann) 3. Reinventing Archaeological Heritage: Critical Science in a North/South Perspective (James A. Zeidler) Part II: Transamerican Case Studies Museums: 4. Bodies Unburied, Mummies Displayed: Mourning, Museums, and Identity Politics in the Americas (Kathleen S. Fine-Dare) 5. Crossing Boundaries with Shrunken Heads (Steven L. Rubenstein) Migrations: 6. Local Conflict, Global Forces: Fighting for Public Education in a New York Suburb (Jean N. Scandlyn) 7. El Envio: Remittances, Rights and Associations among Central American Immigrants in Greater Washington, D.C. (Barbara Burton and Sarah Gammage) Indigenous Movements: 8. Global Indigenous Movements: Convergence and Differentiation in the Face of the 21st Century State (Les W. Field) 9. What Can Americanists and Anthropology Learn from the Alliances between Indigenous Peoples and Popular Movements in the Amazon? (Leda Leitao Martins) PART III: Americanist Reflections 10. 'That's Your Hopi Uncle': Ethical Borders in the Field (Enrique Salmon) 11. The Dust Bowl Tango: Looking at South America from the Southern Plains (Peter M. T. McCormick) 12. The Lizard's Dream (Steven L. Rubenstein and Kathleen S. Fine-Dare) Afterword: Post-Fordism and Americanist Anthropology (David L. Nugent) About the Contributors Index
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