Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America /

Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America / / ed. by Jean E. Jackson, Kay B. Warren.

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Throughout Latin America, indigenous peoples are responding to state violence and pro-democracy social movements by asserting their rights to a greater measure of cultural autonomy and self-determination. This volume's rich case studies of movements in Colombia, Guatemala, and Brazil weigh the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Gow, David D.,
Graham, Laura R.,
Jackson, Jean E.,
Montejo, Víctor,
Ramos, Alcida Rita,
Rappaport, Joanne,
Turner, Terence,
Warren, Kay B.,
HerausgeberIn:
Jackson, Jean E.,
Warren, Kay B.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2003
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Studying Indigenous Activism in Latin America
  • 2. The Indigenous Public Voice:The Multiple Idioms of Modernity in Native Cauca
  • 3. Contested Discourses of Authority in Colombian National Indigenous Politics:The 1996 Summer Takeovers
  • 4. The Multiplicity of Mayan Voices:Mayan Leadership and the Politics of Self-Representation
  • 5. Voting against Indigenous Rights in Guatemala: Lessons from the 1999 Referendum
  • 6. How Should an Indian Speak? Amazonian Indians and the Symbolic Politics of Language in the Global Public Sphere
  • 7. Representation,Polyphony, and the Construction of Power in a Kayapó Video
  • 8. Cutting through State and Class: Sources and Strategies of Self-Representation in Latin America
  • Contributors
  • Index

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