Western Expansion and Indigenous Peoples : : The Heritage of Las Casas / / ed. by Elias Sevilla-Casas.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©1977
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (307 p.) :; Num. figs
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Table of Contents:
  • I-XIV
  • Introduction
  • SECTION ONE: General Theoretical Considerations
  • Notes on Las Casas Ideological and Political Practice
  • Alternatives to Ethnocide: Human Zoos, Living Museums, and Real People
  • The Right of the Third World to Develop in Its Own Way and Remarks on the Idea of "Change"
  • SECTION TWO: The Colonial Past in Spanish America
  • The Gridiron Plan and the Caste System in Colonial Central America
  • The Persistence of the Baroque in Peru and Mexico
  • Ecuador: The Indigenous Tribute System as a Mechanism of Exploitation During the Colonial Period and the First Years of Independence
  • Danish Colonialism in the West Indies: A Case of Transculturation Failure
  • SECTION THREE: The Latin American Present
  • Agrarian Reform in Chile and Its Impact on Araucanian Indian Communities
  • Jungle Quechua Ethnicity: An Ecuadorian Case Study
  • Jívaro Head Hunters in a Headless Time
  • The Fiesta of the Indian in Quibdó, Colombia
  • Crosses and Souls
  • Chinantec Messianism: The Mediator of the Divine
  • The Role of Peasant Organizations in the Struggle Against Multinational Corporations: The Cuban Case
  • The Cultural Dependency of Rural Communities and Peasant Guerrillas in Latin America
  • Biographical Notes
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects