Nation-states and Indians in Latin America

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Greg Urban, Joel Sherzer
University of Texas Press, 1991 - Social Science - 335 pages
Twelve essays pose a challenge to classical anthropological theory and methodology in which Indian cultures have been analyzed in isolation, without regard for nation-state context. Empirically focused, they deal with such issues as how the Guatemalan tourist industry appropriates indigenous clothing to create a national image and how highland Indian music has adapted to Peruvian state interventions since the colonial period. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Indians NationStates and Culture
1
Symbolic Counterhegemony among the Ecuadorian Shuar
53
Being and Becoming an Indian in the Vaupés
131
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Joel Sherzer is professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been carrying out research among the Kuna Indians since 1970. He has written Verbal Art in San Blas: Kuna culture through its discourse, as well as numerous articles dealing with Kuna language, culture, society, and literature.

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