Dignity for the Voiceless : : Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context / / ed. by Ton Salman, Gemma van der Haar, Salvador Martí i Puig.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Banck, Geert,; Haar, Gemma van der,; Hoekema, André J.,; Kay, Cristóbal,; Puig, Salvador Martí i,; Salman, Ton,
• HerausgeberIn: Haar, Gemma van der,; Puig, Salvador Martí i,; Salman, Ton,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: CEDLA Latin America Studies ; 103
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)

Willem Assies died in 2010 at the age of 55. The various stages of his career as a political anthropologist of Latin American illustrate how astute a researcher he was. He had a keen eye for the contradictions he observed during his fieldwork but also enjoyed theoretical debate. A distrust of power led him not only to attempt to understand “people without voice” but to work alongside them so they could discover and find their own voice. Willem Assies explored the messy, often untidy daily lives of people, with their inconsistencies, irrationalities, and passions, but also with their hopes, sense of beauty, solidarity, and quest for dignity. This collection brings together some of Willem Assies’s best, most fascinating, and still highly relevant writings.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I (Urban) Social Movements in Latin America -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Of Structured Moves and Moving Structures: An Overview of Theoretical Perspectives on Social Movements -- Chapter 2. Urban Social Movements, Democratization, and Democracy in Brazil -- Part II Agrarian Issues -- Introduction -- Chapter 3. The Agrarian Question in Peru: Some Observations on the Roads of Capital -- Chapter 4. From Rubber Estate to Simple Commodity Production: Agrarian Struggles in the Northern Bolivian Amazon -- Part III Indigenous (Land) Rights -- Introduction -- Chapter 5. Self-Determination and the “New Partnership”: The Politics of Indigenous Peoples and States -- Chapter 6. Indian Justice in the Andes: Re-rooting or Re-routing? -- Part IV Ethnicity and Citizenship -- Introduction -- Chapter 7. The Limits of State Reform and Multiculturalism in Latin America: Contemporary Illustrations -- Chapter 8. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Indigenous Peoples and Autonomies in Latin America -- Part V. Political Developments in Bolivia -- Introduction -- Chapter 9. David versus Goliath in Cochabamba: Water Rights, Neoliberalism, and the Revival of Social Protest in Bolivia -- Chapter 10. Neoliberalism and the Reemergence of Ethnopolitics in Bolivia -- Contributors -- Bibliography Willem Assies -- Index