Dignity for the Voiceless : : Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.)
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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

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