Intercultural utopias : public intellectuals, cultural experimentation, and ethnic pluralism in Colombia / Joanne Rappaport.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rappaport, Joanne.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Latin America otherwise.

Latin America otherwise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Colombia--Cauca (Dept.)--Intellectual life.

Indians of South America--Colombia--Cauca (Dept.)--Social conditions.

Indians of South America--Colombia--Cauca (Dept.)--Politics and government.

Multiculturalism--Colombia--Cauca (Dept.).

Cultural pluralism--Colombia--Cauca (Dept.).

Cauca (Colombia : Department)--Cultural policy.

Cauca (Colombia : Department)--Ethnic relations.

Cauca (Colombia : Department)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores how participants in the indigenous movement in Cauca, Colombia--including indigenous, non-indigenous, scholars, and shamans--have helped define a new sense of Colombian nationhood.

Contents:

Introduction

Frontier Nasa/Nasa de Frontera : the dilemma of the indigenous intellectual

Colaboradores : the predicament of pluralism in an intercultural movement

Risking dialogue : anthropological collaborations with NASA intellectuals

Interculturalism and lo propio : CRICs teachers as local

Second-sight : NASA and guambiano theory

The battle for the legacy of father Ulcuc : spirituality in the struggle between region and locality

Imagining a pluralist nation : intellectuals and indigenous special jurisdiction.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-323) and index.

ISBN:

9780822387435

0822387433

OCLC:

606039002