Fernando Coronil Reader

Fernando Coronil (1944–2011) was Professor of Anthropology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, author of The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela, and coeditor of States of Violence and Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline.

“I highly recommend this Reader, and hope that it can contribute to make the work of Fernando Coronil even better known and appreciated among scholars, hopefully beyond the circles of metropolitan academia too. And I am sure that a translation into Spanish would be very well received among readers in Latin American and Caribbean countries.”- Luis Angosto-Ferrández (Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research) “The Fernando Coronil Reader is an invaluable addition to the field of Latin American Studies from a myriad of perspectives–e.g. anthropology, history, cultural studies. Coronil’s work challenges us to rethink our approaches to key contemporary epistemological, political, and ethical questions.” - Gianfranco Selgas (European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies)

• Introduction: Transcultural Paths and Utopian Imaginings / Mariana Coronil, Laurent DuBois, Julie Skurski, and Gary Wilder  1Part I. Labyrinths of Critique: The Promise of AnthrohistoryIntroduction / David Pedersen  471. Pieces for Anthrohistory: A Puzzle to be Assembled Together  532. Transculturation and the Politics of Theory: Countering the Center, Cuban Counterpoint  693. Foreword to Close Encounters of Empire  1184. Perspectives on Tierney's Darkness in El Dorado  1235. The Future in Question: History and Utopia in Latin America (1989–2010)  128Part II. Geohistorical States: Latin American CounterpointIntroduction / Edward Murphy  1656. Dismembering and Remembering the Nation: The Semantics of Political Violence in Venezuela  1717. Transitions to Transitions: Democracy and Nation in Latin America  2318. Venezuela's Wounded Bodies: Nation and Imagination during the 2002 Coup  2509. Oilpacity: Secrets of History in the Coup against Hugo ChÁvez  26210. Crude Matters: Seizing the Venezuelan Petro-state in Times of ChÁvez  266Part III. Beyond Occidentalism, Beyond EmpireIntroduction / Paul Eiss  30911. Occidentalism  31512. Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Nonimperial Geohistorical Categories  32313. Listening to the Subaltern: The Poetics of Neocolonial States  36814. Smelling Like a Market  38515. Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization  39916. After Empire: Reflections on Imperialism from the AmÉricas  425Credits  457Index  459