Indigenous Peoples in Latin America

This book examines a sociopolitical policy that in various national contexts has proven to be the most appropriate way of resolving the conflicts and ameliorating the conditions of oppression, discrimination, and inequality that go with ethnic-national heterogeneity in Latin American social life. 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.