The politics of ethnicity
Subtitle: indigenous peoples in Latin American states
By: edited by David Maybury-Lewis.
Contributors: Maybury-Lewis, David.
Series: David Rockefeller Center series on Latin American studies, Harvard University
Publisher: Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Government relations; Indians -- Government relations; Indians -- Politics and government; Indians -- Ethnic identity
Description: "Professor Maybury-Lewis and his colleagues provide the reader with a valuable analysis and a useful tool for the understanding of ongoing conflicts between indigenous peoples and states in various Latin American countries. A broad overview of the issues ranges from the local level to their international implications. This volume presents a clear picture of one of the least well known yet most significant developments in the recent history of a number of Latin American societies." -- Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Colegio de México, Mexico, UN Human Rights Commission, special rapporteur on the rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people.

"This timely book is a sweeping anthropological vision of contemporary relations between the indigenous peoples of Latin America and the states that contain them. The resulting picture is an indictment for most Latin American nation-states except for specific governments that have been able to respond to well-organized indigenous social and political movements. However, one central fact remains undisputed: the Latin American indigenous movement has provoked a most radical questioning of the models of nation-state, democracy, and development since the expansion of anarchistic and socialist theories in the late 19th century." -- Sefano Varese, Professor of Native American Studies, University of California Davis, Director of the Indigenous Research Center of the Americas.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A new dawn or a cycle restored? Regional dynamics and cultural politics in indigenous Mexico, 1978-2001 / Jerome M. Levi; title: Appropriating the indigenous, creating complicity: the Guatemalan military and the sanctioned Maya / Jennifer Schirmer; title: The Kuna of Panama: continuing threats to land and autonomy / James Howe; title: Caught in the crossfire: Colombia's indigenous peoples during the 1990's / Jean Jackson; title: The politics of identity and cultural difference in the Colombian Amazon: claiming indigenous rights in the Putumayo region / María Clemencia Ramírez; title: Ecuador's Indian movement: pawn in a short game or agent in state reconfiguration / Theodore Macdonald, Jr.; title: State power and indigenous people's in Peruvian Amazonia: a lost decade, 1990-2000 / Bartholomew Dean; title: Andean culture, indigenous identity, and the state in Peru / Paul H. Gelles; title: Paradoxes of liberal indigenism: indigenous movements, state processes, and intercultural reform in Bolivia / Bret Gustafson; title: New rules for the game: Paraguayan indigenous groups and the transition to democracy / Richard Reed; title: For reasons of state: paradoxes of indigenist policy in Brazil / David Maybury-Lewis.