Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America / / ed. by Edward F. Fischer.

• MitwirkendeR: Achá, Gloria,; Baud, Michiel,; Casaús Arzú, Marta Elena,; Cojtí Cuxil, Demetrio,; Colloredo-Mansfeld, Rudi,; Dickins, Avery,; Fischer, Edward F.,; Goldstein, Daniel M.,; Hinojosa, Eric,; Pitarch, Pedro,; Rappaport, Joanne,; Roncken, Theo,; Sawyer, Suzana,
• HerausgeberIn: Fischer, Edward F.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

In recent years the concept and study of “civil society” has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America, thi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Indigenous Peoples, Neo-liberal Regimes, and Varieties of Civil Society in Latin America
• Chapter 1 Indigenous Politics and the State: The Andean Highlands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• Chapter 2 La Mano Dura and the Violence of Civil Society in Bolivia
• Chapter 3 Empire/Multitude—State/Civil Society: Rethinking Topographies of Power through Transnational Connectivity in Ecuador and Beyond
• Chapter 4 The Power of Ecuador’s Indigenous Communities in an Era of Cultural Pluralism
• Chapter 5 Civil Society and the Indigenous Movement in Colombia: The Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca
• Chapter 6 Indigenous Nations in Guatemalan Democracy and the State: A Tentative Assessment
• Chapter 7 Reformulating the Guatemalan State: The Role of Maya Intellectuals and Civil Society Discourse
• Chapter 8 El otro lado: Local Ends and Development in a Q’eqchi’ Maya Community
• Chapter 9 The Political Uses of Maya Medicine: Civil Organizations in Chiapas and the Ventriloquism Effect
• Index