Endangered Peoples Of Latin America
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Author |
: Susan C. Stonich |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2001-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780313016547 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0313016542 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Endangered Peoples of Latin America by : Susan C. Stonich
Latin America comprises varied biophysical environments and diverse populations living in widely disparate economic circumstances. Endangered Peoples of Latin America: Struggles to Survive and Thrive includes peoples hit hardest by the current globalization trend. Each chapter profiles a specific people or peoples with a cultural overview of their history, subsistence strategies, social and political organization, and religion and world view; threats to their survival; and responses to these threats. A section entitled Food for Thought provides questions that encourage a personal engagement with the experiences of these peoples, and a resource guide suggests further reading and lists films and videos and pertinent organizations and web sites. As the curriculum expands to include more multicultural and indigenous peoples, this unique volume will be valuable to both students and teachers.
Author |
: Donna Lee Van Cott |
Publisher |
: Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0312158742 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780312158743 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indigenous Peoples and Democracy in Latin America by : Donna Lee Van Cott
Author |
: Hector Diaz Polanco |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 2018-03-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429968419 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429968418 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indigenous Peoples In Latin America by : Hector Diaz Polanco
This book deals with the perennial tensions between ethnic groups and the modern nation-state and does so from the perspective of a leading Mexican anthropologist with deep and long experience in these matters. As such, it is both a superb introduction to the basic issues and a presentation of the author's own original contributions. The appearance of this book in English gives North American readers access to these important and political currents in Latin American anthropology and political economy. It is required reading for anyone wishing to understand the current recrudescence of indigenous peoples at this moment in history?when conventional wisdom had predicted its demise.
Author |
: Donna L. Van Cott |
Publisher |
: DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 109 |
Release |
: 1998-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780788145711 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0788145711 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Defiant Again by : Donna L. Van Cott
Author |
: Edward L. Cleary |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813534615 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813534619 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Resurgent Voices in Latin America by : Edward L. Cleary
Annotation After more than 500 years of marginalisation, Latin America's forty million Indians have gained political recognition and civil rights. Here, social scientists explore the important role of religion in indigenous activism, showing the ways that religion has strengthened indigenous identity and contributed to the struggle for indigenous rights.
Author |
: Cristóbal Gnecco |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 366 |
Release |
: 2016-06-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315426648 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315426641 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indigenous Peoples and Archaeology in Latin America by : Cristóbal Gnecco
Eighteen chapters primarily by Latin American scholars describe the range of relations between indigenous peoples and archaeology in the first major attempt to describe indigenous archaeology in Latin America for an English speaking audience.
Author |
: Jakob Kronik |
Publisher |
: World Bank Publications |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2010-06-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780821383810 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0821383817 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean by : Jakob Kronik
This book addresses the social implications of climate change and climatic variability on indigenous peoples and communities living in the highlands, lowlands, and coastal areas of Latin America and the Caribbean. Across the region, indigenous people already perceive and experience negative effects of climate change and variability. Many indigenous communities find it difficult to adapt in a culturally sustainable manner. In fact, indigenous peoples often blame themselves for the changes they observe in nature, despite their limited emission of green house gasses. Not only is the viability of their livelihoods threatened, resulting in food insecurity and poor health, but also their cultural integrity is being challenged, eroding the confidence in solutions provided by traditional institutions and authorities. The book is based on field research among indigenous communities in three major eco-geographical regions: the Amazon; the Andes and Sub-Andes; and the Caribbean and Mesoamerica. It finds major inter-regional differences in the impacts observed between areas prone to rapid- and slow-onset natural hazards. In Mesoamerican and the Caribbean, increasingly severe storms and hurricanes damage infrastructure and property, and even cause loss of land, reducing access to livelihood resources. In the Columbian Amazon, changes in precipitation and seasonality have direct immediate effects on livelihoods and health, as crops often fail and the reproduction of fish stock is threatened by changes in the river ebb and flow. In the Andean region, water scarcity for crops and livestock, erosion of ecosystems and changes in biodiversity threatens food security, both within indigenous villages and among populations who depend on indigenous agriculture, causing widespread migration to already crowded urban areas. The study aims to increase understanding on the complexity of how indigenous communities are impacted by climate change and the options for improving their resilience and adaptability to these phenomena. The goal is to improve indigenous peoples rights and opportunities in climate change adaptation, and guide efforts to design effective and sustainable adaptation initiatives.
Author |
: Willem Assies |
Publisher |
: Purdue University Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106018408895 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Challenge of Diversity by : Willem Assies
Over the past several years new constitutions have been promulgated in many Latin American countries. A notable feature of the new constitutional frameworks is the recognition of the multiethnic and pluricultural character of these Latin American societies and States. Without question this fact reflects the new weight that indigenous movements have gained in political processes in the region. The recognition of multiethnicity constitutes a significant break with the previous perspective based on homogeneity and assimilation. Although this recognition of diversity is indeed important, the real test and challenge shall be the full implementation of diversity through concrete policies and institutional reforms.
Author |
: David Maybury-Lewis |
Publisher |
: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: UTEXAS:059173012452456 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Ethnicity by : David Maybury-Lewis
The indigenous people of the hemisphere have resisted a five-hundred-year assault, fighting to maintain their cultural identities. During this time, authorities in the Americas have insisted that the toleration of indigenous societies and cultures would undermine their respective states. In recent years, however, the nations of the Americas have started to reverse themselves. They are altering their constitutions and proclaiming themselves multiethnic. Why is this happening now? The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States, edited by David Maybury-Lewis, helps us understand the reasons and history behind these times of transition. The book provides a valuable overview of current problems facing indigenous peoples in their relation with national states in Latin America, from the highlands of Mexico to the jungles of Brazil. The traditional, sometimes centuries old, relations between states and indigenous peoples are now changing and being rediscussed. The collection, authored by U.S. and Latin American anthropologists using interdisciplinary approaches, enables the reader to understand these recent developments in a comparative framework. An ambitious and quite thorough collection, it is brought together skillfully by one of the discipline's ma tre penseurs.
Author |
: Edward F. Fischer |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781845455972 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1845455975 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America by : Edward F. Fischer
In recent years the concept and study of “civil society” has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America, this volume explores the multiple potentialities of civil society’s growth and critically assesses the potential for sustained change. Much recent literature has focused on the remarkable gains made by civil society and the chapters in this volume reinforce this trend while also showing the complexity of civil society - that civil society can itself sometimes be uncivil. In doing so, these insightful contributions speak not only to Latin American area studies but also to the changing shape of global systems of political economy in general.