Indigenous peoples, civil society, and the neo-liberal state in Latin America. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Edward F. Fischer.
• Other Names: Fischer, Edward F, 1966-
• Contents: Introduction: indigenous peoples, neo-liberal regimes, and varieties of civil society in Latin America / Edward F. Fischer -- Indigenous politics and the state: the Andean Highlands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Michiel Baud -- La mano dura and the violence of civil society in Bolivia / Daniel M. Goldstein [and others] -- Empire/multitude, state/civil society : rethinking topographies of power through transnational connectivity in Ecuador and beyond / Suzana Sawyer -- The power of Educaor's indigenous communities in an era of cultural pluralism / Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld -- Civil society and the indigenous movement in Colombia: the Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca / Joanne Rappaport -- Indigenous nations in Guatemalan democracy and the state: a tentative assessment / Demetrio Cojtí Cuxil -- Reformulating the Guatemalan state: the role of Maya intellectuals and civil society discourse / Maria Elena Casaús Arzú -- El otro lado: local ends and development in Q'eqchi' Maya community / Avery Dickins -- The political uses of Maya medicine: civil organization in Chiapas and the ventriloquism effect / Pedro Pitarch.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 214 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 323.119708; Indians -- Government relations; Indians, Treatment of -- Latin America; Indians -- Social conditions; Civil society -- Latin America; Neoliberalism -- Latin America; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Indios de América del Sur -- Relaciones con los gobiernos; Movimientos indigenistas -- América latina; Liberalismo -- América latina; Civil society; Indians -- Government relations; Indians -- Social conditions; Indians, Treatment of; Neoliberalism; Neoliberalismus; Zivilgesellschaft; Latin America; Indianer; Lateinamerika; Aufsatzsammlung; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857455475; 0857455478
• Related ISBNs: 9781845455972; 1845455975
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.