Customizing Indigeneity Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru

Name: Customizing Indigeneity Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru
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ISBN: 9780804761192

ISBN-10: 0804761191

ISBN-13: 9780804761192

Edition: 2009

Authors: Shane Greene

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How do vision quests, river locations, and warriors relate to indigenous activism? For the Aguaruna, an ethnic group at the forefront of Peru's Amazonian Movement, incorporating practices and values they define as customary allows them to shape their own experience as modern indigenous subjects. As Shane Greene reveals, this customization centers on the complex articulation of meaningful social practices, cultural logics, and the political economy of specialized production and consumption. Following decades of engagement with and resistance to state-mandated missionary education, land-titling, and international advocacy networks, the Aguaruna have faced numerous constraints in pursuit of…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 5/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 269
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Shane Greene is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University.



List of Illustrations


List of Acronyms


Acknowledgments


A Path In...



Projects of Customization



Customizing Indigeneity


...A Path Between...



Logics of Customization



Paths, Rivers, and Strong Men



A How-to Manual for Visionary Warriors


...Another Path Between...



Politics of Customization



From Schools of War to Schools at War: Bilingual Education and Becoming Indigenous



Paths, Roads, and Borders: The Fragmentary Logic of the Native Community



Warriors of Pen and Paper: The Customization of Organizational Encounters


...A Path Out


Epilogue: Field Notes on Customizing Anthropology


Notes


References


Index