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9780822387435

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English

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Although only 2 percent of Colombia's population identifies as indigenous, that figure belies the significance of the country's indigenous movement. More than a quarter of the Colombian national territory belongs to indigenous groups, and 80 percent of the country's mineral resources are located in native-owned lands. In this innovative ethnography, Joanne Rappaport draws on research she has conducted in Colombia over the past decade-and particularly on her collaborations with activists-to explore the country's multifaceted indigenous movement, which, after almost 35 years, continues to press for rights to live as indigenous people in a pluralistic society that recognizes them as citizens. Focusing on the intellectuals involved in the movement, Rappaport traces the development of a distinctly indigenous modernity in Latin America-one that defies common stereotypes of separatism or a romantic return to the past. As she reveals, this emerging form of modernity is characterized by interethnic communication and the reframing of selectively appropriated Western research methodologies within indigenous philosophical frameworks.Intercultural Utopias centers on southwestern Colombia's Cauca region, a culturally and linguistically heterogeneous area well known for its history of indigenous mobilization and its pluralist approach to ethnic politics. Rappaport interweaves the stories of individuals with an analysis of the history of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca and other indigenous organizations. She presents insights into the movement and the intercultural relationships that characterize it from the varying perspectives of regional indigenous activists, nonindigenous urban intellectuals dedicated to the fight for indigenous rights, anthropologists, local teachers, shamans, and native politicians.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

20 septembre 2005

EAN13

9780822387435

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

intercultural utopias

a book in the series latin america otherwise

Languages, Empires, Nations

series editors: Walter D. Mignolo,Duke University Irene Silverblatt,Duke University Sonia Saldívar-Hull,University of Texas, San Antonio

Intercultural Utopias

public intellectuals, cultural experimentation, and ethnic pluralism in colombia

Joanne Rappaport

duke university press Durham and London 2005

on acid-free paper

Typeset in Minion by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-

Publication Data appear on the last

printed page of this book.

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contents

About the Seriesix

Acknowledgmentsxi

A Note on the Orthography of Nasa Yuwexvii

Abbreviations for Colombian Organizationsxix

Introduction1

1. Frontier Nasa/Nasa de Frontera23 The Dilemma of the Indigenous Intellectual

2.Colaboradores55 The Predicament of Pluralism in an Intercultural Movement

3. Risking Dialogue83 Anthropological Collaborations with Nasa Intellectuals

4. Interculturalism andLo Propio115 CRIC’s Teachers as Local Intellectuals

5. Second Sight152 Nasa and Guambiano Theory

6. The Battle for the Legacy of Father Ulcué185 Spirituality in the Struggle between Region and Locality

7. Imagining a Pluralist Nation227 Intellectuals and Indigenous Special Jurisdiction

Epilogue262

Glossary277

Notes281

Works Cited299

Index325

about the series

Latin America Otherwiseis a critical series. It aims to explore the emergence and consequence of concepts used to deﬁne ‘‘Latin America’’ at the same time exploring the broad interplay of political, economic, and cultural practices that have shaped ‘‘Latin American’’ worlds. Latin America, at the crossroads of competing imperial designs and local responses, has been construed as a geocultural and geopolitical entity since the nineteenth century. This series provides a starting point to redeﬁne Latin America as a conﬁguration of political, linguistic, cultural and economic intersections that demands a con-tinuous reappraisal of the role of the Americas in history, and of the on-going process of globalization and the relocation of people and cultures that have characterized Latin America’s experience.Latin America Otherwise: Lan-guages, Empires, Nations is a forum that confronts established geocultural constructions, that rethinks area studies and disciplinary boundaries, that assesses convictions of the academy and of public policy, and that, corre-spondingly, demands that the practices through which we produce knowledge and understanding about and from Latin America be subject to rigorous and critical scrutiny. This book is about dreams: dreams of belonging to and participating in a new Colombia. The dreamers are part of an indigenous movement in the province of Cauca—an extraordinary one that builds on the many knowledges and talents of native and nonnative women and men. Their vision is insistently inclusive, incorporating the insights of intellectuals and cultural planners from di√erent ethnic backgrounds; it is also insistently communicative, forg-ing dialogues between indigenous communities and across them to represen-tatives of larger regional and national groupings. We learn about building dreams and attempts at realizing them and about the complex roles of public intellectuals in that process. We learn about in-tercultural engagement and the transformative discourses that ensue. But,

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