Multiculturalism in Latin America
Subtitle: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 21, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780333998700
Subjects: Development studies; Human rights; Multicultural studies; Political ideologies; Social & cultural anthropology; Social Science; Sociology; Multicultural Nonfiction; Latin America; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnic Studies - General; Latin America - General; Social Science / Popular Culture; Popular Culture - General; 1980-; Case studies; Indians; Multiculturalism; Politics and government; Social conditions
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.