Scarritt, A: Racial Spoils from Native Soils

Arthur Scarritt

ISBN 10: 0739191373 / ISBN 13: 9780739191378

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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Neuware - This book explains how one man swindled his Andean village twice. The first time he extorted everyone's wealth and disappeared, leaving the village in shambles. The village slowly recovered through the unlikely means of converting to Evangelical religions, and therein reestablished trust and the ability to work together. The new religion also kept villagers from exacting violent revenge when this man returned six years later. While hated and mistrusted, this same man again succeeded in cheating the villagers. Only this time it was for their lands, the core resource on which they depended for their existence. This is not a story about hapless isolation or cruel individuals. Rather, this is a story about racism, about the normal operation of society that continuously results in indigenous peoples' impoverishment and dependency. This book explains how the institutions created for the purpose of exploiting Indians during colonialism have been continuously revitalized over the centuries despite innovative indigenous resistance and epochal changes, such as the end of the colonial era itself. The ethnographic case of the Andean village first shows how this institutional set up works through-rather than despite-the inflow of development monies. It then details how the turn to advanced capitalism-neoliberalism-intensifies this racialized system, thereby enabling the seizure of native lands.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Scarritt, A: Racial Spoils from Native Soils
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0739191373
• ISBN 13: 9780739191378
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 231W x 152H x 18D millimeters 231 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 363 grams

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Synopsis

This book explains how one man swindled his Andean village twice. The first time he extorted everyone’s wealth and disappeared, leaving the village in shambles. The village slowly recovered through the unlikely means of converting to Evangelical religions, and therein reestablished trust and the ability to work together. The new religion also kept villagers from exacting violent revenge when this man returned six years later. While hated and mistrusted, this same man again succeeded in cheating the villagers. Only this time it was for their lands, the core resource on which they depended for their existence.

This is not a story about hapless isolation or cruel individuals. Rather, this is a story about racism, about the normal operation of society that continuously results in indigenous peoples’ impoverishment and dependency. This book explains how the institutions created for the purpose of exploiting Indians during colonialism have been continuously revitalized over the centuries despite innovative indigenous resistance and epochal changes, such as the end of the colonial era itself. The ethnographic case of the Andean village first shows how this institutional set up works through―rather than despite―the inflow of development monies. It then details how the turn to advanced capitalism―neoliberalism―intensifies this racialized system, thereby enabling the seizure of native lands.

About the Author

Arthur Scarritt is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Boise State University.