David Maybury-Lewis was Edward C. Henderson Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University and founder and president of Cultural Survival, an organization that defends indigenous rights. Bartholomew Dean is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. Paul H. Gelles is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. Bret Gutafson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washington University, St. Louis. James Howe is Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jean Jackson is Professor and Head of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jerome M. Levi is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Latin American Studies at Carleton College. Theodore Macdonald is a Lecturer in Anthropology and Social Studies at Harvard University and was affiliated with the University Committee on Human Rights Studies. Maria Clemencia Ramirez is Senior Researcher at the Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia e Historia and Professor of Anthropology at Universidad de los Andes, Bogota Richard Reed is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Trinity University. Jennifer Schirmer is a Research Professor in Oslo and an Affiliate of the Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival at Harvard University.
The result of a conference held Harvard in 2000, this collection of
essays explores the contemporary impact of indigenous organizations
and indigenista policies in Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia,
Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil… This is an excellent
volume that explains the variety of routes taken by the ‘return of
the Indian’ in nine Latin-American national contexts. Predictions
made in 2000 when the papers were given have proved quite prescient
and the collection will be much used in teaching and research.
*Bulletin of Spanish Studies*
[T]hese timely essays help explain the contradictory process by
which recent indigenous uprisings have drawn so much attention on
the international stage, while concurrently enjoying so few
improvements within their respective nation states. As a reflection
of the cutting edge of scholarly approaches to its field, this
collection will become an important teaching tool for
anthropological and historical courses specifically focused on
indigenous resistance and a comprehensive complementary source to
Latin American studies in general.
*Rene Harder Horst*
The striking, world-wide, self-assertion by indigenous peoples is,
surely, a most notable feature of our ‘turn-of-the-millennium.’
Nowhere is it more striking than in Latin America where
assimilationist ideologies—whether violent and predatory or
populist and peaceful—were recently so hegemonic. Nowhere is this
great transformation examined with such originality,
comprehensiveness, analytical care and nuance as here, in The
Politics of Ethnicity.
*James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Anthropology and Political
Science, Yale University*
Professor Maybury-Lewis and his colleagues provide the reader with
a valuable analysis and a useful tool for the understanding of
ongoing conflicts between indigenous peoples and states in various
Latin American countries. A broad overview of the issues ranges
from the local level to their international implications. This
volume presents a clear picture of one of the least well-known yet
most significant developments in the recent history of a number of
Latin American societies.
*Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Colegio de México, Special Rapporteur on the
Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples, U.N. Human
Rights Commission*
This timely book is a sweeping anthropological vision of
contemporary relations between the indigenous peoples of Latin
America and the states that contain them. The resulting picture is
an indictment for most Latin American nation states except for
specific governments that have been able to respond to
well-organized indigenous social and political movements. However,
one central fact remains undisputed: the Latin American indigenous
movement has provoked a most radical questioning of the models of
nation-state, democracy, and development since the expansion of
anarchistic and socialist theories in the late nineteenth
century.
*Stefano Varese, Professor of Native American Studies, University
of California, Davis*
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