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Book Reviews cultural as well as in her physical environment. These projects, especially among indigenous peoples, are efforts at reconstituting communities for specific human ends, rather than those of the global market. Finally, insisting on our relationality to our environment challenges modern assumptions about nature as something to be mastered or overcome . Here the subject reclaims her connection to nature (Catherine E. Walsh, Silvia Federici), recovers the practices of indigenous peoples (Federici, Zimmer), and focuses on the importance of buen vivir, now understood as well-being rather than the market-driven accumulation of stuff (Esteva). But “nature” is complex. For example, Zimmer’s essay challenges Schmitt’s assumption that the fence is the necessary prerequisite for sociality. The practice of taming nature—or “possessing” it, as Jodi A. Byrd notes—disregards the fact that there were people with fully-developed cultures present before the fences go up. Zimmer argues that Andean assumptions about commonly shared space and resources suggest an alternative to the need to possess, he is sanguine about the dangers of reducing communities to their “natures,” shutting off other possibilities. One of the strengths of this collection is its capacity for self-reflection. For all of the discussion of indigeneity in these essays, Byrd problematizes that category, especially as it refers to sovereignty. To seek indigenous sovereignty risks capturing those communities in Western legal categories , locking them into Western assumptions about territory. Similarly, Benjamin Noys is concerned that invoking life as a revolutionary category may only be implicating those projects in a revisioned form of capitalism. The challenge of and for this discussion is attempting to redress circumstances generated by Western social, political, and cultural assumptions using Western counterhegemonic thought. It must run the risk of bringing us back to where we began: Europeans defining non-European places and practices. Its self-reflection makes Anomie of the Earth an exemplar of the project of talking back to Western hegemony, while remaining mindful of the pitfalls of trying to do so from within. John Randolph LeBlanc Department of Political Science and History University of Texas at Tyler GLOBAL PULLS ON THE KOREAN COMMUNITIES IN S~ AO PAULO AND BUENOS AIRES. By Won K. Yoon. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015, p. 216, $80.00. Having previously searched (mostly) in vain for readings on Latin America’s Asian-descendant populations, I sympathize with Evelyn HuDeHart ’s observation that the diversity of the region’s immigrant populations – and particularly Asians and Arabs – had long been overlooked in Latin American Studies, or at least its North American core. Fortunately , as she noted, “the floodgates are [now] open” vis-à-vis the region’s 307 The Latin Americanist, June 2016 “multiculturalism” (Latin American Research Review 44[2]: 242). And insofar as Won K. Yoon’s Global Pulls on the Korean Communities in São Paulo and Buenos Aires is potentially “the first and only book-length report in English on the Korean communities in South America” (xx), its publication is most welcome. In addition to the “main” objective of comparatively “trac[ing] the effects of the global pulls upon the growth and development patterns” of “the two largest Korean communities in Latin America” – those of São Paulo (some 45,000 people) and Buenos Aires (around 20,000) – Yoon’s other chief ambition is to introduce this Korean diaspora to unfamiliar audiences (xv; xx-xxi). He is substantially more successful in the latter task than the former. I do not intend this assessment as faint praise. The definitive lack of English-language material on Korean-Latin Americans is pernicious, as it inhibits appreciation of Latin America’s tremendous demographic diversity and its incorporation into broader conversations about immigration, transnationalism, cultural hybridity, and so on. Luckily, such lacunae are (gradually) being filled, and it is to Yoon’s credit that he is on the frontlines of this salutary trend. Indeed, Yoon provides a detailed but highly accessible overview of these oft-overlooked communities and their overall trajectory, from the arrival in the 1950s of around 70 former North Korean prisoners of war, to larger-scale South Korean migration in the following decade, to oftenremote (and generally unsuccessful) would-be farms, to a “rush” of over...

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