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Intercultural Utopias
Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia
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Joanne Rappaport
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Edited by:
Sonia Saldívar-Hull
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English
Published/Copyright:
2005
About this book
Explores how participants in the indigenous movement in Cauca, Colombia--including indigenous, non-indigenous, scholars, and shamans--have helped define a new sense of Colombian nationhood.
Author / Editor information
Joanne Rappaport is Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University. She is the author of The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes, also published by Duke University Press, and Cumbe Reborn: An Andean Ethnography of History.
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“Joanne Rappaport takes engaged anthropology a whole step further in this brilliant experimental ethnography. Through intercultural dialogues involving new generations of Nasa intellectuals and their nonindigenous collaborators in Colombia, we witness creative tactics to decolonize knowledge and produce novel hybrid political culture. Intercultural Utopias offers a rigorous, indigenously inflected analytical approach to issues such as indigenous politics, autonomy, and conflict ‘inside the inside’ of highly fluid arenas of indigenous activism.”—Kay Warren, author of Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala
“This book is a major intervention in discussions of interculturalism among scholars and activists committed to indigenous movements. Joanne Rappaport’s theoretical and methodological innovation and politically engaged practice model the transformative power of horizontal conversation between and among intellectuals from distinct linguistic and cultural traditions.”—Florencia E. Mallon, author of Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906–2001
“Intercultural Utopias is extremely useful for thinking comparatively about indigenous movements, particularly the sections on bilingual education, the role of the national left, implementation of customary law, and dealings with transnational religious authorities.”
-- Diane Nelson Journal of Anthropological Research
“In this path-breaking book, Rappaport describes and analyzes the work of ‘intellectuals’ that have during recent decades informed and shaped the indigenous movement in the province of Cauca (Colombia). . . . One of the book’s major insights is its challenge to the idea that Colombia’s indigenous movement is monolithic, with a homogenous set of actors.”
-- Esteban Rozo Comparative Studies in Society and History
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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About the Series
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Acknowledgments
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A Note on the Orthography of Nasa Yuwe
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Abbreviations for Colombian Organizations
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Introduction
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1. Frontier Nasa/Nasa de Frontera The Dilemma of the Indigenous Intellectual
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2. Colaboradores The Predicament of Pluralism in an Intercultural Movement
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3. Risking Dialogue Anthropological Collaborations with Nasa Intellectuals
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4. Interculturalism and Lo Propio CRIC’s Teachers as Local Intellectuals
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5. Second Sight Nasa and Guambiano Theory
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6. The Battle for the Legacy of Father Ulcué Spirituality in the Struggle between Region and Locality
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7. Imagining a Pluralist Nation Intellectuals and Indigenous Special Jurisdiction
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Epilogue
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Glossary
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Notes
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Works Cited
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
September 20, 2005
eBook ISBN:
9780822387435
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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360
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2 b&w photos, 1 map, 11 figures
