Indigenous perceptions of the nation-state in Latin America.
Contributors: Giordani, Lourdes.; Snipes, Marjorie M.
Series: Studies in Third World societies,; publication no. 56
Publisher: Dept. of Anthropology, College of William and Mary
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Williamsburg, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Government relations.; Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Government relations.; Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- Government relations.; Mayas -- Government relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Cover title.
Guest editors, Lourdes Giordani and Marjorie M. Snipes.
Table of contents: title: The lone horseman, exotic cargo, and jaguar-men : imagining and experiencing the state among the Eń̄apa and Yabarana peoples of Venezuela / Lourdes Giordani and María E. Villalón; title: Bolivia : toward a plurinational state / Xavier Albó; title: Perception of the state among Peruvian Indians / Manuel M. Marzal; title: Elusive goals : 'opción cero' and the limits of state rule and hegemony in eastern Bolivia / Harry Sanabria; title: The 'gaze' of the state : school as contested territory in the Argentine Andes / Marjorie M. Snipes; title: Entitling ethnicities : land, locality, and identity in two Maya land titles from western Guatemala, 1879-1891 / John M. Watanabe; title: The new world dis-order : a view from Chiapas, Mexico / June C. Nash.