Daniel Renfrew is Associate Professor of Anthropology at West Virginia University.

List of Illustrations and Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Saturn's Nightmare
1 • To Live, Not Only Survive
2 • This Is Not a Game
3 • La Teja Shall Sing
4 • The Two Fires of ANCAP
5 • New House, New Life
6 • We Are All Contaminated
Conclusion: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Life without Lead examines the social, political, and environmental dimensions of a devastating lead poisoning epidemic. Drawing from a political ecology of health perspective, the book situates the Uruguayan lead contamination crisis in relation to neoliberal reform, globalization, and the resurgence of the political Left in Latin America. The author traces the rise of an environmental social justice movement, and the local and transnational circulation of environmental ideologies and contested science. Through fine-grained ethnographic analysis, this book shows how combating contamination intersected with class politics, explores the relationship of lead poisoning to poverty, and debates the best way to identify and manage an unprecedented local environmental health problem.