1st Edition
Indigenous Peoples In Latin America The Quest For Self-determination
By Hector Diaz Polanco
Copyright 1997
176 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface -- Excluded Identities -- Nation Building and the Ethnic Question -- Colonial Policy and Slavery -- Colonial Indigenism -- Indigenism After Independence -- On the Road to Autonomy -- New Ethnic Struggles and Political-Theoretical Transformations -- Foundations of a Regime of Regional Autonomy -- Examples of Regional Autonomy: The USSR, Spain, and Nicaragua -- Prospects for Regional Autonomy -- Epilogue
Biography
Hector Diaz Polanco
