Peoples of the earth [ ethnonationalism, democracy, and the indigenous challenge in "Latin" America

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andersen, Martin Edwin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books , c2010
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Online Access:http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/iviewer/ROWMANB0003008/userkey/pc/1/0/read.html
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The "miner's canary" of democracy
  • 3. Elite neglect and "rediscovery"
  • 4. Is democracy a zero-sum game?
  • 5. Imagined communities : Marxism and the Indian nation-state
  • 6. Indian lands, "ungoverned spaces," and failing states
  • 7. Bolivia : unraveling a present past
  • 8. Peru' : the emergence of the unbowed "other"
  • 9. Ecuador : a populist test of plurinationalism
  • 10. Guatemala : many nations within a single nation-state
  • 11. Chile : contesting the lands of the "people of the earth"
  • 12. Colombia : special rights within a context of lawlessness
  • 13. Toward a new American identity
  • 14. Conclusion