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

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ISBN-10: 0292791380

ISBN-13: 9780292791381

Edition: 2003

Authors: Bill Wright, Jean E. Jackson, Kay B. Warren

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This volume focuses on indigenous movements, the politics of representation, and Latin America's anthropological and activist orientation. With case studies from Colombia, Guatemala & Brazil, it shows how indigenous peoples have asserted their rights.
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Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/1/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Nationally known author and photographer Bill Wright has published five previous books, including Portraits from the Desert: Bill Wright's Big Bend, People's Lives: A Celebration of the Human Spirit, and the award-winning The Tiguas: Pueblo Indians of Texas. He has exhibited his award-winning photographs internationally and in the United States in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions. He is a member and former president of the Philosophical Society of Texas.

Brewster Kneen is Canada's foremost analyst and critic of agribusiness. He has written several books on different aspects of food and its production and also publishes a monthly newsletter, The Ram's Horn.Frederic Volpi is based at the University of St Andrews.KAY B. WARREN is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Studying Indigenous Activism in Latin America
The Indigenous Public Voice: The Multiple Idioms of Modernity in Native Cauca
Contested Discourses of Authority in Colombian National Indigenous Politics: The 1996 Summer Takeovers
The Multiplicity of Mayan Voices: Mayan Leadership and the Politics of Self-Representation
Voting against Indigenous Rights in Guatemala: Lessons from the 1999 Referendum
How Should an Indian Speak?: Amazonian Indians and the Symbolic Politics of Language in the Global Public Sphere
Representation, Polyphony, and the Construction of Power in a Kayapo Video
Cutting through State and Class: Sources and Strategies of Self-Representation in Latin America
Contributors
Index