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Indigenous peoples, civil society, and the neo-liberal state in Latin America / edited by Edward F. Fischer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indigenous peoples--Government relations.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Indians, Treatment of--Latin America.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- Indigenous peoples--Social conditions.
- Civil society--Latin America.
- Civil society.
- Neoliberalism--Latin America.
- Neoliberalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In recent years the concept and study of "civil society" has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America, this volume explores the multiple potentialities of civil society's growth and critically assesses the potential for sustained change. Much recent literature has focused on the remarkable gains made by civil society and the chapters in this volume reinforce this trend while also showing the complexi
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Indigenous Politics and the State: The Andean Highlands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Chapter 2 La Mano Dura and the Violence of Civil Society in Bolivia; Chapter 3 Empire/Multitude-State/Civil Society: Rethinking Topographies of Power through Transnational Connectivity in Ecuador and Beyond; Chapter 4 The Power of Ecuador's Indigenous Communities in an Era of Cultural Pluralism; Chapter 5 Civil Society and the Indigenous Movement in Colombia: The Consejo Regional Indigena del Cauca
- Chapter 6 Indigenous Nations in Guatemalan Democracy and the State: A Tentative AssessmentChapter 7 Reformulating the Guatemalan State: The Role of Maya Intellectuals and Civil Society Discourse; Chapter 8 El Otro Lado: Local Ends and Development in a Q'eqchi' Maya Community; Chapter 9 The Political Uses of Maya Medicine: Civil Organizations in Chiapas and the Ventriloquism Effect; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780857455475
- 0857455478
- OCLC:
- 994873525
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