Indigenous Peoples In Latin America : The Quest For Self-determination

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diaz Polanco, Hector.

Dâiaz Polanco, Hâector, Author.

Series:

Latin American perspectives series Indigenous peoples in Latin America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism.

Indians--Government relations.

Indians--Politics and government.

Indigenous peoples--Government relations.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Politics and government.

Autonomy.

Local Subjects:

Cultural pluralism.

Indians--Government relations.

Indians--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Westview Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book deals with the perennial tensions between ethnic groups and the modern nation-state and does so from the perspective of a leading Mexican anthropologist with deep and long experience in these matters. As such, it is both a superb introduction to the basic issues and a presentation of the author's own original contributions. The appearance of this book in English gives North American readers access to these important and political currents in Latin American anthropology and political economy. It is required reading for anyone wishing to understand the current recrudescence of indigeno

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Translator's Acknowledgments; PART ONE Excluded Identities; 1. Nation Building and the Ethnic Question; Ethnic-National Eterogeneity in Europe; Nation Building and Ethnic Groups in Latin America; National Intetration Versus Sociocultural Plurality ; Elites, the State, and Ethnic Groups; From Criollo Nationalism to Liberal Centralism; Notes; 2. Colonial Policy and Slavery; Indian Slavery; The Requerimiento and the ""Just War"" Against the Indians; The Abolition of Indian Slavery ; The Misery of the Indigenous Peoples; Notes; 3. Colonial Indigenism; Opposing Interests

Criollo SeditionEncomienda, Repartimiento, and Debt Servitude; Segregationism and Assimilationism; The Political and Ideological Role of Religion; Indian Towns and New Identity; Notes; 4. Indigenism After Independence; The Liberals'' Liquidationist Indigenism; Integrationist Indigenism: From Ethnocide to Ethnophagy; Ethnocism: Foundation of a New Indigenism; The Ethnic-National Question and Social Change; Notes; PART TWO: On the Road to Autonomy; 5. New Ethnic Struggles and Political-Theoretical Transformations; The New National Struggles of Ethnic Groups

A Restatement of the Ethnic-National Question and AutonomyNotes; 6. Foundations of a Regime of Regional Autonomy; Autonomy and the Nation-State; Autonomy and Ethnic Rights; Autonomy and Self-Determination; The Territorial Basis of Autonomy; The Legal and Constitutional Character of Autonomy; The Distribution of Competencies; Notes; 7. Examples of Regional Autonomy: The USSR, Spain, and Nicaragua; The Regime of Regional Autonomy in the USSR; Autonomous Communities within the Spanish State; Autonomous Regions in Nicaragua; Notes; 8. Prospects for Regional Autonomy; A Case of Legal Reform

The Postponement of Territorial ReorganizationA Struggle for Autonomy in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; Autonomy: Myth and Reality ; Prospects; Notes; Epilogue; About the Book, Author, and Translator; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-429-96841-8

1-4294-8841-7