Ethnicity from Various Angles and Through Varied Lenses: Yesterday's Today in Latin America (CILAS Sussex Latin American Library) - Hardcover

Zamosc, Leon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845193601 ISBN 13: 9781845193607

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2011

Synopsis

The contributions in this book were presented at the first conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean (ERIP), organized by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), held at UC, San Diego in 2008. This volume provides rich essays of the ways in which ethnicity has been perceived and represented by several historical actors, including indigenous peoples themselves, and how ethnicity, in the wake of such varied realities and perceptions, has been transformed over the course of time. The book will be essential reading for all Latin American Studies practitioners. Ethnicity from Various Angles and through Varied Lenses is divided into three main sections, with editorial introductions to each part. Part One of the book 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 center around how ethnicity is construed through ritual, geographical, and literary works ("various lenses"). Part Three explains how indigenous knowledge becomes commodified, reinvented, and re-appropriated from the "outside," namely with non-governmental organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and the State ("various angles"). (Series: Sussex Latin American Studies)

About this title

About the Author:

Christine Hunefeldt is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies at UC, San Diego. Leon Zamosc Associate Professor of Sociology and the Associate Director of Latin American Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1845193601
• ISBN 13: 9781845193607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Hunefeldt Christine