Latin American Studies Association fSUMMER 2007o| VOLUME XXXVIIIrum| ISSUE 3 IN THIS ISSUE On the Profession What’s Your eth? by JUDITH M. MAXWELL Ambigüedades y auto-reconocimiento by JAVIER SANJINÉS Race Counts by GEORGE REID ANDREWS The Problems of Measuring Race and Ethnicity by PAULINE ALBERTO and JESSE HOFFNUNG-GARSKOF Debates Desde Otros Saberes by VIVIAN NEWDICK Develamos el mito de la democracia racial en Puerto Rico by JOCELYN A. GÉLIGA VARGAS Investigadores comunales de Tuara guían la elaboración de diagnóstico para la demarcación y titulación de su territorio by EDWIN TAY L O R and MARK EVERINGHAM Produciendo saberes desde la religiosidad y la memoria by EDIZON LEÓN CASTRO Um inventário da tradição Wajãpi, articulando “dois caminhos” by DOMINIQUE TILKIN GALLOIS Maintaining a Healthy Organization in the Face of Political Repression by ODILIA ROMERO HERNÁNDEZ Territorios de vida, alegría, y libertad... Un diálogo de saberes por la defensa del territorio by LIBIA ROSARIO GRUESO and ARTURO ESCOBAR President Charles R. Hale, University of Texas, Austin [email protected] Vice President Eric Hershberg, Simon Fraser University [email protected] Past President Sonia E. Alvarez, University of Massachusetts, Amherst [email protected] Table of Contents Treasurer Kevin Middlebrook, University of London [email protected] EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 1 Helen Safa | Recipient of Silvert Award for 2007 For term ending October 2007 2 From the President | by CHARLES R. HALE José Antonio Aguilar Rivera, Centro de Docencia e Investigación Económica 4 From the Associate Editor | by ARTURO ARIAS Elizabeth Jelin, Consejo de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas ON THE PROFESSION Lynn Stephen, University of Oregon 6 What’s Your eth? | by JUDITH M. MAXWELL For term ending April 2009 Alcida Rita Ramos, Universidade de Brasília 9 Ambigüedades y auto-reconocimiento | by JAVIER SANJINÉS Guillermo Delgado, University of California/Santa Cruz José Rabasa, University of California/Berkeley 12 Race Counts | by GEORGE REID ANDREWS 15 The Problems of Measuring Race and Ethnicity Ex Officio Neil F. Harvey, New Mexico State University by PAULINE ALBERTO and JESSE HOFFNUNG-GARSKOF María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Milagros Pereyra-Rojas, University of Pittsburgh DEBATES Philip Oxhorn, McGill University Desde Otros Saberes by VIVIAN NEWDICK FORUM EDITORIAL COMMITTEE 18 Develamos el mito de la democracia racial en Puerto Rico Editor by JOCELYN A. GÉLIGA VARGAS Charles R. Hale, University of Texas, Austin 19 Investigadores comunales de Tuara guían la elaboración de diagnóstico para la Associate Editor Arturo Arias, University of Redlands demarcación y titulación de su territorio | by EDWIN TAYLOR and MARK EVERINGHAM 20 Produciendo saberes desde la religiosidad y la memoria | by EDIZON LEÓN CASTRO Managing Editor Milagros Pereyra-Rojas, University of Pittsburgh 22 Um inventário da tradição Wajãpi, articulando “dois caminhos” Guest Editor by DOMINIQUE TILKIN GALLOIS Vivian Newdick, University of Texas, Austin 23 Maintaining a Healthy Organization in the Face of Political Repression by ODILIA ROMERO HERNÁNDEZ LASA STAFF 24 Territorios de vida, alegría, y libertad... Un diálogo de saberes por la defensa Membership Coordinator Jenna B. Bielewicz, University of Pittsburgh del territorio | by LIBIA ROSARIO GRUESO and ARTURO ESCOBAR Congress Coordinator María Cecilia Q. Dancisin, University of Pittsburgh ON LASA2007 Communications Specialist 27 Report from the Program Chairs | by NEIL HARVEY and MARÍA SOCORRO TABUENCA Ian Downing, University of Pittsburgh 27 On Montréal | by MARIANNE NIOSI Assistant Director for Institutional Advancement Sandra Klinzing, University of Pittsburgh 28 Some Tips on Language Etiquette in Montréal | by VICTOR ARMONY Executive Director 30 Session Highlights Milagros Pereyra-Rojas, University of Pittsburgh Administrative Coordinator LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Israel R. Perlov, University of Pittsburgh 32 Comentario al Dr. Hosokawa | by MIDORI IIJIMA The LASA Forum is published four times a year. It is the official vehicle for conveying news about the Latin 33 Centering the Periphery, Non-Latin Latin Americanisms: The Case of Austria American Studies Association to its members. Articles by GERHARD DREKONJA-KORNAT appearing in the On the Profession and Debates sections of the Forum are commissioned by the Editorial Committee and deal with selected themes. The Committee welcomes PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL NOTES responses to any material published in the Forum. Opinions expressed herein are those of individual authors 34 In Memoriam | ÁLVARO FÉLIX BOLAÑOS and do not necessarily reflect the view of the Latin American Studies Association or its officers. Direct subscriptions to the LASA Forum only, without LASA membership, are $50.00 per year. ISSN 0890-7218 SPECIAL RECOGNITION Helen Safa Recipient of Silvert Award for 2007 Helen Safa is Professor Emeritus of Dr. Safa’s intense interest in Latin American men in the region, regardless of race, no Anthropology and Latin American Studies at and Caribbean studies was reflected in her longer function as adequate providers. Dr. the University of Florida. She has been first major monograph, The Urban Poor of Safa initiated a three-year fellowship active in LASA since the early 1970s, when Puerto Rico, published in 1974, and in The program at Florida, funded by the she was first elected to the Executive Myth of the Male Breadwinner: Women and Rockefeller Foundation, on Afro-American Council. She has not missed a single Industrialization in the Caribbean, which Identity and Cultural Diversity, culminating Congress since 1974 and has served on appeared in 1995. The latter monograph in a conference and a special issue of Latin numerous Task Forces (later to become compares women industrial workers in American Perspectives entitled Race and Sections) and advisory committees. In 1982 Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican National Identity in the Americas. Dr. Safa she was elected LASA Vice President, and Republic, demonstrating how women have edited that issue while a resident scholar at served her Presidential cycle though 1986. become major contributors to the household the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio study Her primary initiative was to secure funding economy in each of these countries; the center in Italy. through the Ford Foundation for the first impact of that contribution, however, is exchange agreement with Cuba, which shown to be weakened by a public In addition to her books, Dr. Safa has subsequently grew into and remains a major patriarchy that continues to view women as published over 60 articles and book chapters component of LASA Congresses. Dr. Safa supplemental wage earners. Sex and Class on issues of poverty and urbanization, also was instrumental in the founding and in Latin America and Women and Change in gender and development, social movements, growth of the Gender and Feminist Studies Latin America, both co-edited with June mestizaje, and family structure. She has Section, which helped transform LASA from Nash, reveal Safa’s continuing interest in the been a visiting professor at Dartmouth, a largely North American male organization social impact of women’s paid labor force Columbia, the Kellogg Institute of the in the 1960s and early 70s into the more participation. With support from the Social University of Notre Dame, the Dominican sexually, racially, and regionally diverse Science Research Council, she co-organized Studies Institute at City College, organization it is today. She is on the with June Nash one of the first inter- Northwestern University, the University of editorial board of the Latin American American conferences on women and Utrecht in the Netherlands, and, with the Research Review and other scholarly development, and her participation in the support of the Fulbright Program, the journals. international women’s movement Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and contributed to another co-edited volume the Universidade Federal da Bahia. She Dr. Safa has sought to enlarge the scope of with Eleanor Leacock entitled Women’s received an award as a founder of Puerto Latin American Studies in her own academic Work, supported by the Wenner-Gren Rican anthropology and a pioneer in Puerto institutions, first at Rutgers University and as Foundation. Rican women’s studies from the Puerto Director of the University of Florida’s Center Rican Association of Anthropology and the for Latin American Studies from 1980 to Throughout her work, Dr. Safa has pursued American Ethnological Society. For her 1985. A major focus at Florida has been on an interest in the causes and consequences scholarly achievements, she also received the research in the Caribbean, taking advantage of inequality, focusing on class issues in her 2003 Conrad Arensburg award from the of the University’s rich library resources earlier work on poverty and urbanization, Society for the Anthropology of Work of the there and the state’s proximity to the region. moving to gender in the 1970s and 1980s in American Anthropological Association. Through the Caribbean Migration Program, the previously cited volumes, and now funded by the Ford and Tinker Foundations, incorporating race. The intersection of class, she encouraged students from the Caribbean gender, and race inequalities is strongly to do graduate work in Florida; she also evident in the Caribbean, even in the family, invited scholars from the region to serve as where Dr. Safa argues that the prevalence of visiting