Peoples of the earth : ethnonationalism, democracy, and the indigenous challenge in "Latin" America / Martin Edwin Andersen ; foreword by Robert A. Pastor.
This book explores the culture of indigenous peoples in Latin America, the fundamental challenges they offer to traditional Euro-American notions of democracy, citizenship and develop the interface of these topics. It also explores the relevant themes on human rights and the environment, with questi...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The "miner's canary" of democracy
- Elite neglect and "rediscovery"
- Is democracy a zero-sum game?
- Imagined communities : marxism and the Indian nation-state
- Indian lands, "ungoverned spaces," and failing states
- Bolivia : unraveling a present past
- Perú : the emergence of the unbowed "other"
- Ecuador : a populist test of plurinationalism
- Guatemala : many nations within a single nation-state
- Chile : contesting the lands of the "people of the earth"
- Colombia : special rights within a context of lawlessness
- Toward a new American identity
- Conclusions.