Madeline Barbara Léons

Dados Biográficos

ID151634
NOMEMadeline Barbara Léons
PRENOMESMadeline Barbara
SOBRENOMELéons
ASSINATURALÉONS M B
AFILIAÇÕESTowson University
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES12
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1977
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2014
ÍNDICE H2

  • Cocaine Unwrapped

    Open AccessMadeline Barbara LéonsARTICLEAnthropology of Work Review2014

  • Reading Inca History (review)

    Madeline Barbara LéonsARTICLEJournal of Colonialism and…2005

    Reviewed by: Reading Inca History by Catherine Julien Madeline Barbara Léons Reading Inca History. By Catherine Julien. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000 This volume deals with Inca history from their mythological origin through their rise of their Andean empire, brought down by the Spanish conquest. All versions of the Inca past identify eleven rulers, called Incas, from Manco Capac, who, with his siblings, emerged from a cave and settle…

  • Risk and Opportunity in the Coca/Cocaine Economy of the Bolivian Yungas

    Open AccessMadeline Barbara LéonsARTICLEJournal of Latin American Studies1993Citada por: 2Referências: 16

    Bolivia is one of the poorest countries of the hemisphere and its rural people have among the lowest life expectancy, health-care standards and educational levels of all Latin Americans. It is the only country in South America with a ranking of 'low' on the Human Development Index for 1991 compiled by the United Nations, a measure combining the per capita product with such factors as longevity and access to education. At the same time, the most v…

  • Cocaine Politics

    Open AccessMadeline Barbara LéonsARTICLELatin American Anthropology Review1992

    Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America. Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. 279pp. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–520–07312–6

  • Cocaine Politics

    Open AccessMadeline Barbara LéonsARTICLELatin American Anthropology Review1992

  • Race, ethnicity, and political mobilization in the Andes

    Open AccessMadeline Barbara LéonsARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1978Citada por: 6Referências: 9

    Appeal to ethnic or racial identity may become a basis for group cohesion and organization enhancing ability to compete politically. Blacks in Chicaloma were able to monopolize local political offices by organizing as a distinct constituency. While phenotypical distinctiveness acts as a barrier to ethnic cooptation of the more mobile, a pattern that has prevented the emergence of ethnic politics affecting Indians in the Andean countries, black id…

  • The Utility of Pluralism

    Open AccessMadeline Barbara Léons, MADELINE BARBARA LÉON et al.ARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1977Citada por: 4Referências: 16

    This paper reevaluates plural theory and its implications through an analysis of M. G. Smith's contribution. Difficulties encountered stem from Smith's preoccupation with political causality and his assignment of conflict and consensus theory to two different kinds of society. We conclude that neither of these assumptions is integral to plural theory per se. Plural theory is capable of asking the appropriate questions concerning how the vertical …