The elusive promise of indigenous development : rights, culture, strategy / Karen Engle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Engle, Karen.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Civil rights--America.

Indigenous peoples.

America--Civilization.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An analysis of how cultural rights emerged over self-determination as the dominant legal framework for indigenous advocacy in the late twentieth century, bringing unfortunate, if unintended, consequences.

Contents:

Setting the stage for the transnational indigenous rights movement : domestic and international law and politics

Indigenous movements in the Americas in the 1970s : the fourth world movement and Pan-indigenism

International institutions and indigenous advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s : self-determination claims

International indigenous advocacy in the 1980s : following the model of a human right to culture

Culture as heritage

Culture as grounded in land

Culture as development

The history of law 70 : culture as heritage, land, and development

The periphery of law 70 : Afro-colombians in the Caribbean.

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613065636

9781283065634

1283065630

9780822392965

0822392968

OCLC:

662617009