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In this well-researched book, Barry Lyons provides an account of a former hacienda in highland Ecuador (Monjas Corral, Chimborazo Province). His account mixes solid archival work with more than three years of fieldwork in the area, largely in the early 1990s, when Lyons spoke

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This article critically evaluates Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991), arguing that the book's popularity partly derives from its resonance with widespread, deep-seated western notions of language, especially oppositions between print and orality in terms of their relationship to cognition, emotion, history, and nationalism. The article gives reason to reconsider reactions to Anderson's book and argues for a more sustained focus on the relationship between nationalism and linguistic ideologies.

This study unites psychological and economic anthropology by examining dreams that predict future economic outcomes, specifically the dreams of a Mexican‐American owner of a corner store who faced a dilemma in 2007 about whether he should add a small bakery to his business. The study shows not only the ambiguity and complexity of the owner's dream interpretations but also, most importantly, how they led to profound reflections on economic value, risk, temporality, and his place in the transnational United States–Mexico economy. It thereby shows how broad social and economic issues are made meaningful at a personal, existential level through dream interpretations.