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Book review essay

From Jibara to anthropologist: Puerto Rican ethnography and the politics of representation

Pages 107-122 | Published online: 04 May 2010

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  • I want to thank my friends and colleagues for their insight and suggestions regarding this review essay. These include Pedro M. Hernández, William Kelleher, Yvonne Lassalle, Johanna Lessinger, Alejandro Lugo, Marvette Peréz, Mérida Rúa, and the students in Anthropology 269, Latinas and Latinos Challenging the Anthropological Landscape, at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign in the Fall of 1996.

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