WRITING
books
2024 The Taste of Nostalgia: Women, Race and Culinary Longing in Peru. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
2020 Inventando una Ciudad Perdida: Ciencia, Fotografía y la Leyenda de Machu Picchu. Lima, Peru: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. Spanish translation of 2017 book.
2017 Framing a Lost City: Science, Photography and the Making of Machu Picchu. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
edited books and special issues
2022 “The Persistence of Race in Peru: Intersectionality, Coloniality and Power.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies [Special Issue], edited by A. Cox Hall, C. Alcalde and F. Babb, 17(1).
2020 The Camera as Actor: Photography and the Embodiment of Technology, edited by A. Cox Hall. London: Routledge.
journal articles
2022 “Unsettling Violent Histories: Exploring the Work of Elizabeth Lino-Cornejo and Karen Bernedo Morales.” [Special Issue]. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, co-authored with María Elena García. Early online view.
2022 “Revisiting Race and Ethnicity in Peru: Intersectional and Decolonizing Perspectives.” [Special Issue]. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, co-authored with C. Alcalde and F. Babb. Early online view.
2021 “Digesting Peru in Brooklyn: The Flavor of Culinary Nationalism.” Gastronomica: The Journal of Food Studies 21(2): 73-83.
2022 “A Lost City and its Time Machine: Vision and Affect in Rail Travel to Machu Picchu.” Space and Culture 25 (4): 586-599. Early view November 2020. DOI: 10.1177/1206331220965418
2020 “Cooking up Heritage: Culinary Adventures of Peru’s Past.” [Special Issue] Bulletin of Spanish Studies January. DOI:10.1080/14753820.2020.1699364
2019 “Savoring Nostalgia: Food and the Past in Peru’s ‘La Casa de Don Cucho’.” [Special Issue] Anthropology of Food (14): 1-22.
2019 “Heritage-Prospecting and the Past as Future(s) in Peru.” Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 24(2): 331-350.DOI: 10.1111/jlca.12402.
2018 “Living on a Prayer: Neo-Monasticism and Socio-ecological Change.” Religion 48(4): 678-699. DOI: 10.1090/0048721X.2018.1520752.
2018 “Archival Labyrinth: Words, Things and Bodies in Epistemic Formation.” Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society 1(1): 131-146. DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2018.1514713.
2019 “Evaluations that Fail: Small Samples, Nasty Emails and Tenuous Futures.” Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice 15(1): 161-172. Fast tracked, July 13, 2017. DOI: 10.1332/174426417X14998723379147.
2017 “Neo-monastics in North Carolina: De-growth and a Theology of Enough.” Journal of Political Ecology (24): 543-565.
2012 “Collecting a ‘Lost City’ for Science: Huaquero Vision and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions to Machu Picchu.” Ethnohistory 59(2): 293-321.
2007 “Purifying bodies, Translating Race: The Lantern Slides of Sir Everard im Thurn.” History of Photography 31(4): 348-364.
book chapters
2022 “Gender in Postcolonial Latin America.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies, edited by B. Vinson. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
2021 “Machu Picchu.” In New World Objects of Knowledge: A Cabinet of Curiosities, edited by M. Thurner and J. Pimental, 141-146. London: University of London Press.
2020 “Introduction.” In The Camera as Actor: Photography and the Embodiment of Technology, edited by A. Cox Hall, 1-14. London: Routledge.
2020 “The Millennium Camera.” In The Camera as Actor: Photography and the Embodiment of Technology, edited by A. Cox Hall, 15-16. London: Routledge.
2020 “The Leica Tattoo.” In The Camera as Actor: Photography and the Embodiment of Technology, edited by A. Cox Hall, 103-104. London: Routledge.
2016 “Machu Picchu: An Andean Utopia for the 21st Century?” In World Heritage Sites and Tourism: Global and Local Relations, edited by M.G. Barbas, L. Bourdeau and M. Robinson, 37-44. London: Routledge.
2015 “Doing Christianity: Intentional Communities and Social Justice in the Early 21st Century.” In Religious Diversity Today: Experiencing Religion in the Contemporary World, edited by J.G. Goulet, L. Murphy, and A. Panagakos, 35-64. Westport, CT: Praeger.
2014 “Latin America as Laboratory: The Camera and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions (1911, 1912, 1914-15).” In Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology and Society in Latin America, edited by E. Medina, I. Da Costa Marques, C. Holmes, 245-266. Boston: MIT Press.
Winner -2016 Amsterdamska Award from European Association for the Study of Science and Technology for most creative collaboration in an edited book.
book & film reviews
2024 Eating Besides Ourselves: Thresholds of Foods and Bodies, Heather Paxson (ed.), American Ethnologist.
2024 Going Native? Settler Colonialism and Food by Ronald Santa, Alejandro Colás and Daniel Monterescu. Food and History 22(2).
2022 Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race by María Elena García. NACLA, June 24.
2020 Stealing with the Eyes: Imaginings and Incantations in Indonesia by Will Buckingham. Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing 21(2): 107-110. DOI: 10.3167/jys.2020.210207.
2019 Phantom Skies and Shifting Ground: Landscape, Culture and Rephotography in Eadweard Muybridge’s Illustrations of Central America by Byron Wolfe and Scott Brady. Journal of Latin American Geography 18(2): 182-184.
2018 “Looking Beyond the Ranges: Lost Cities and Scientific Virtue in Hollywood Cinema.” Review of the films The Lost City of Z and Embrace of the Serpent. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 23(2): 397-400.
2017 Darwin’s Man in Brazil: The Evolving Science of Fritz Müller by David A. West. H-Latam, special issue on science in Latin America, February 14.
2014 Negotiating Culture: Heritage, Ownership and Intellectual Property edited by L. La Follette. Journal of Anthropological Research, 70(2): 299-300.
2013 Extreme Collecting: Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums, edited by G. Were and JCH King. Visual Anthropology Review 29(2): 168-169.
2012 Take Me to My Paradise: Tourism and Nationalism in the British Virgin Islands by Colleen Ballerino Cohen. American Anthropologist 114(2): 373-374.
2011 The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories by Florence Babb. Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute (18): 207-208.