Indigenous perceptions of the nation-state in Latin America.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Giordani, Lourdes, Snipes, Marjorie M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Williamsburg, Va. : Dept. of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, [1995]
Series:	Studies in Third World societies. publication no. 56.
Subjects:	Indians of South America > Government relations. Indians of Central America > Guatemala > Government relations. Indians of Mexico > Mexico > Chiapas > Government relations. Indians of South America > Psychology. Indians of Central America > Guatemala > Psychology. Indians of Mexico > Mexico > Chiapas > Psychology. Nation-state.

Table of Contents:

The lone horseman, exotic cargo, and jaguar-men : imagining and experiencing the state among the En̄́apa and Yabarana peoples of Venezuela / Lourdes Giordani and María E. Villalón
Bolivia : toward a plurinational state / Xavier Albó
Perception of the state among Peruvian indians / Manuel M. Marzal
Elusive goals : 'opción cero' and the limits of state rule and hegemony in eastern Bolivia / Harry Sanabria
The 'gaze' of the state : school as contested territory in the Argentine Andes / Marjorie M. Snipes
Entitling ethnicities : land, locality, and identity in two Maya land titles from western Guatemala, 1879-1891 / John M. Watanabe
The new world dis-order : a view from Chiapas, Mexico / June C. Nash.