Foreword / Ilan Kelman -- Prologue / Anthony Oliver-Smith -- Introduction : anthropologists studying disasters in Latin America : why, when, how? / Virginia García-Acosta -- Risk and uncertainty in Argentinean social anthropology / Ana Murgida and Juan Carlos Radovich -- The field of anthropology of disasters in Brazil : challenges and perspectives / Renzo Taddei -- The anthropology of disasters that has yet to be : the case of Central America / Roberto E. Barrios and Carlos Batres -- Thinking through disaster : ethnographers and disastrous landscapes in Colombia / Alejandro Camargo -- Anthropologies of disasters in Ecuador : connections and apertures / A.J. Faas -- The Mexican vein in the anthropology of disasters and risk / Virginia García-Acosta -- Is there an anthropology of risks and disasters in Peru? / Fernando Bravo-Alarcón -- Anthropology of socio-natural disasters in Uruguay / Javier Taks -- An epistemological proposal for the anthropology of disasters : the Venezuelan school / Rogelio Altez.