Customizing Indigeneity: Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru - Couverture souple

Greene, Shane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0804761191 ISBN 13 : 9780804761192

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

How do vision quests, river locations, and warriors relate to indigenous activism? For the Aguaruna, an ethnic group at the forefront of Peru's Amazonian Movement, incorporating practices and values they define as customary allows them to shape their own experience as modern indigenous subjects. As Shane Greene reveals, this customization centers on the complex articulation of meaningful social practices, cultural logics, and the political economy of specialized production and consumption. Following decades of engagement with and resistance to state-mandated missionary education, land-titling, and international advocacy networks, the Aguaruna have faced numerous constraints in pursuit of their own political projects. Based on first-hand fieldwork, Customizing Indigeneity provides a new theoretical language for the politics of indigeneity. Documenting the dynamic between historical constraints and cultural creativity, this work provides a fresh perspective on indigenous people's agency within evolving structures of inequality, while simultaneously challenging common assumptions about scholarly engagement with marginalized populations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Shane Greene is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804761191
• ISBN 13: 9780804761192
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 269
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