Nation-States and Indians in Latin America, 2nd ed.
edited by Greg Urban, Joel Sherzer
Paperback, 6x9 in, 335 pages
Hats Off Books, April 2001
ISBN:
1587360349
Description
What happens to Amerindian
cultures when they come into contact with the Europe-derived nation-states
of Latin America? How are the nation-states in turn affected by
this experience? These questions motivate the essays in Nation-States
and Indians in Latin America. While furnishing a sweeping
overview of Latin America, the essays are empirically focused,
dealing with such issues as how the Guatemalan tourist industry
appropriates indigenous clothing to create a national image, how
highland Indian music has adapted to Peruvian state interventions
since the colonial period, and how debates developed in turn-of-the-century
Brazil over the proper method for integrating isolated Indian
populations into the national society.
The essays also pose a challenge
to classical anthropological theory and methodology, in which
Indian cultures have been analyzed in isolation, without regard
for the role of state interventions. The essays suggest not only
that anthropologists should pay attention to the nation-state
contexts of their research but also that modern nation-states
are themselves appropriate objects for anthropological investigation.
Reviews
". . . a sweeping review
of Indian-State relations in contemporary Latin America. . . [and]
an important new contribution to the field of anthropology."
—William F. Hanks, Anthropology and Linguistics, University
of Chicago
"A real strength of the
volume is the advancement of the discussions of identity ideology,
and discourse which have demonstrated their importance in the
last decade."
—Madeline B. Leons, Towson State University
"In sum, a valuable and
needed collection, useful at both undergraduate and research levels."
—Peter Wade, University of Liverpool
". . . this collection
provides an unparalleled survey of issues concerning the Indian,
not as exotic or frontier peoples, but rather as self-conscious,
politically-active, organized social groups within modern Latin
American societies."
—Choice
About the authors
Greg Urban is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Joel Sherzer is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas.
Contents
Introduction: Indians, Nation-States, and Culture (by Greg Urban and Joel Sherzer)
1. An Ideological Triangle: The Struggle over San Blas Kuna Culture, 1915-1925 (James Howe)
2. Symbolic Counterhegemony among the Ecuadorian Shuar (Janet Hendricks)
3. In Neca Gobierno de Puebla: Mexicano Penetrations of the Mexican State (Jane H. Hill)
4. To Be Indian, to Be Bolivian: "Ethnic" and "National" Discourses of Identity (Thomas Abercrombie)
5. Being and Becoming an Indian in the Vaupés (Jean E. Jackson)
6. Ethnic Discourse and the Challenge to Anthropology: The Nicaraguan Case (Martin Diskin)
7. Strategies of Ethnic Survival in Central America (Richard N. Adams)
8. Becoming Indian in Lowland South America (David Maybury-Lewis)
9. On Indigenism and Nationality in Brazil (Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima)
10. The State and Andean Musical Production in Peru (Thomas Turino)
11. Images of the Indian in Guatemala: The Role of Indigenous Dress in Indian and Ladino Constructions (Carol Hendrickson)
12. The Semiotics of State-Indian Linguistic Relationships: Peru, Paraguay, and Brazil (Greg Urban)
Contributors
Index
