Nation-States and Indians in Latin America

by Urban, Greg

• ISBN13: 9781587360343
• ISBN10: 1587360349
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Greg Urban is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania Joel Sherzer is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Indians, Nation-States, and Culture	p. 1
An Ideological Triangle: The Struggle over San Blas Kuna Culture, 1915-1925	p. 19
Symbolic Counterhegemony among the Ecuadorian Shuar	p. 53
In Neca Gobierno de Puebla: Mexicano Penetrations of the Mexican State	p. 72
To Be Indian, to Be Bolivian: "Ethnic" and "National" Discourses of Identity	p. 95
Being and Becoming an Indian in the Vaupes	p. 131
Ethnic Discourse and the Challenge to Anthropology: The Nicaraguan Case	p. 156
Strategies of Ethnic Survival in Central America	p. 181
Becoming Indian in Lowland South America	p. 207
On Indigenism and Nationality in Brazil	p. 236
The State and Andean Musical Production in Peru	p. 259
Images of the Indian in Guatemala: The Role of Indigenous Dress in Indian and Ladino Constructions	p. 286
The Semiotics of State-Indian Linguistic Relationships: Peru, Paraguay, and Brazil	p. 307
Contributors	p. 331
Index	p. 333
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