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Earth beings : ecologies of practice across Andean worlds
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ISBN: 9780822359449 9780822359630 0822359448 0822359634 9780822375265 0822375265 Year: 2015 Volume: 2011 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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Conversing with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, Marisol de la Cadena explores the entanglements and partial connections between indigenous and non-indigenous worlds, and the ways in which indigenous knowing both include and exceed modern and non-modern practices.


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Indigenous Mestizos : the politics of race and culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991
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ISBN: 0822397021 Year: 2000 Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press,

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In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate social hierarchies; instead, it redefined racial categories as cultural differences, such as differences in education or manners. In Indigenous Mestizos Marisol de la Cadena traces the history of the notion of race from this turn-of-the-century definition to a hegemony of racism in Peru.De la Cadena’s ethnographically and historically rich study examines how indigenous citizens of the city of Cuzco have been conceived by others as well as how they have viewed themselves and places these conceptions within the struggle for political identity and representation. Demonstrating that the terms Indian and mestizo are complex, ambivalent, and influenced by social, legal, and political changes, she provides close readings of everyday concepts such as marketplace identity, religious ritual, grassroots dance, and popular culture, as well as of such common terms as respect, decency, and education. She shows how Indian has come to mean an indigenous person without economic and educational means—one who is illiterate, impoverished, and rural. Mestizo, on the other hand, has come to refer to an urban, usually literate, and economically successful person claiming indigenous heritage and participating in indigenous cultural practices. De la Cadena argues that this version of de-Indianization—which, rather than assimilation, is a complex political negotiation for a dignified identity—does not cancel the economic and political equalities of racism in Peru, although it has made room for some people to reclaim a decolonized Andean cultural heritage.This highly original synthesis of diverse theoretical arguments brought to bear on a series of case studies will be of interest to scholars of cultural anthropology, postcolonialism, race and ethnicity, gender studies, and history, in addition to Latin Americanists.

Indigenous experience today
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ISBN: 9781845205195 1845205197 9781845205188 1845205189 9781003085690 1003085695 9781000187069 1000187063 9781000190182 1000190188 9781000183559 1000183556 9781847883377 1474214932 1282473689 9786612473685 1847883370 9781282473683 9781474214933 6612473681 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford New York Berg

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A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and civilization. Nothing could be further from the truth. Indigenous social movements wield new power, and groups as diverse as Australian Aborigines, Ecuadorian Quichuas, and New Zealand Maoris, have found their own distinctive and assertive ways of living in the present world. Indigenous Experience Today draws together essays by prominent scholars in anthropology and other fields examining the varied face of indigenous politics in Bolivia, Botswana, Canada, Chile, China, Indonesia, and the United States, amongst others. The book challenges accepted notions of indigeneity as it examines the transnational dynamics of contemporary native culture and politics around the world.


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A world of many worlds
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ISBN: 9781478002956 9781478001362 Year: 2018 Publisher: Durham ; London : Duke University Press,

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Indigeneidades contemporáneas : cultura, política y globalización
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ISBN: 9972512592 282184414X Year: 2010 Publisher: Institut français d’études andines

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Durante los últimos siglos, muchas sociedades tribales han sido aniquiladas por la guerra, la enfermedad, la explotación y la asimilación cultural. Sin embargo, lejos de desaparecer, como alguna vez se vaticinó, los pueblos nativos hoy se muestran fortalecidos e incluso crecen en términos demográficos. Así, los pueblos indígenas han afirmado su lugar en la cultura, la economía y la política mundial del siglo XXI, a pesar de lo heterogéneo de sus opiniones y agendas. Los 15 artículos de este libro examinan los diversos rostros de la experiencia indígena actual en el mundo. Contrastando con la imagen de nativos arraigados en sus territorios originales, los capítulos aquí recogidos ofrecen un mapeo de las experiencias indígenas diaspóricas y la circulación mundial del discurso y la política de la indigeneidad. En vez de nociones acerca la "tradición nativa inmutable", los colaboradores muestran a los pueblos indígenas enfrentando la tensa dinámica entre ser clasificados por otros y los intentos de definirse a sí mismos dentro y en contra de un denso entramado de símbolos, fantasías y significados de la indigeneidad.


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What happens between the knots?

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"What happens between the knots? is the third book in the annual A Series of Open Questions published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg Press. Each book in the series includes newly commissioned writing as well a selection of perspectives, images, and references related to the Wattis's year-long research seasons dedicated to single artists. Each book takes the work of a single artist as its point of departure and spirals outward from there to create an expansive and carefully edited ecosystem of ideas and voices. This third issue is informed by themes found in the work of Cecilia Vicuña, including ecofeminism, indigenous forms of knowledge, poetry and politics, dissolution and extinction, exile, dematerialization, regeneration, and environmental responsibility."

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