Ethnicity from Various Angles and Through Varied Lenses: Yesterday's Today in Latin America

by Leon Zamosc, Leon Zamosc (Editor)

Ethnicity is divided into three main sections, with editorial introductions to each part. Part One includes readings of the connections between ethnicity, nationality and memory, namely how indigenous groups today and in the past chose to represent themselves and their social environment, and how indigenous peoples have responded to state-imposed national and ethnic identities (various angles). Part Two engages with contributions that centre around how ethnicity is construed through ritual, geography, and literary works (various lenses). Part Three sets out to explain how indigenous knowledge becomes commodified, reinvented, and re-appropriated from the outside, namely NGOs, pharmaceutical companies, and the state (various angles). The Essay Contributions were first presented at the First Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean (ERIP) organised by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), held at the University of California,
San Diego in 2008. T

256 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2010

Reviews

[Remington Krueger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read several essays from this book, I did not read it in full. Or rather, I have not yet read it in full.