Multiculturalism in Latin America
Subtitle: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 21, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780333998717
Subjects: Development studies; Human rights; Multicultural studies; Political ideologies; Social & cultural anthropology; Social Science; Latin America - General; Ethnic Studies - General; Sociology; Textbooks; Popular Culture - General; Multicultural Nonfiction; Latin America; Anthropology - Cultural; History / Latin America; Social Science / Popular Culture; Social Science : Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science : Ethnic Studies - General; Case studies; Social conditions; 1980-; Indians; Multiculturalism; Politics and government
First sentence: One of the more remarkable developments that took place in Latin America during the last two decades of the twentieth century was the emergence of indigenous peoples as new social and political actors and their implantation in the national consciousness of the region's countries.