{"title":"Community, dispossession, and ethnic rearticulation in Mexico and Guatemala","authors":"Santiago Bastos","doi":"10.1080/17442222.2020.1839222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2020.1839222","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT When neolberalism turned onto extractivism in Latin America, Indigenous populations suffered anonslaught against their territories. In general, resistance mobilization has emerged from community government institutions updated by indigenous peoples who areaware of their rights, and communities are transforming in this process of political action. I propose understand indigenous subjects to be historically active political subjects, and the ‘indigenous community’ as an ethnic construction. Mexico and Guatemala represent an ideal space to study these dynamics, for indigenous communities have characterized much of the social and political behavior of indigenous peoples in these countries, and are now the ones rising up to defend themselves from the dispossession of their territories and ways of life in both countries.","PeriodicalId":35038,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"109 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17442222.2020.1839222","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45746425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carmen Rosa Rea Campos, Marcela Martínez Rodríguez
{"title":"Repensar los estudios sobre saberes indígenas: A propósito del caso p’urhépecha","authors":"Carmen Rosa Rea Campos, Marcela Martínez Rodríguez","doi":"10.1080/17442222.2020.1821453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2020.1821453","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article tries to carry out a critical review on the conception that ethnobiological and anthropological studies sustain regarding the relationship between indigenous knowledge and the environment, taking as a particular case the studies on knowledge of the P’urhépecha, people settled in Michoacán, Mexico. Without denying the advances regarding the field of indigenous knowledge, there are three problematic axes presented by the analyzed works: the tendency to naturalize knowledge and the indigenous-nature relationship; to reify indigenous knowledge a whose singularity and opposition to western knowledge lies in you immunity to social change; lastly, the difficulties of making visible the power relations that mediate the production and reproduction of knowledge, where indigenous peoples as agents confront, with other internal or external agents, in a struggle for meaning, appropriation and control of processes of validity of knowledge and truth, in contexts of social change and environmental deterioration.","PeriodicalId":35038,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"261 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17442222.2020.1821453","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47009872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Putting bodies on the line: notes on hegemony, vulnerability, and witnessing","authors":"Deborah A. Thomas","doi":"10.1080/17442222.2020.1828549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2020.1828549","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35038,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"425 - 429"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17442222.2020.1828549","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47588420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Capturing kontredans: the transnational exposure of a Haitian dance form","authors":"P. Minn","doi":"10.1080/17442222.2020.1831155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2020.1831155","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the rural Haitian community of Ti Rivyè, dancers and musicians perform kontredans, a dance based on 18th-century European social dances and strongly influenced by African musical sensibilities and movement vocabulary. Those who perform it today are the descendants of enslaved persons who overthrew their colonial masters in an unprecedented revolutionary war. This article presents a specific kontredans and accompanies a documentary film that intends to increase the dance’s visibility in Haiti and abroad. While kontredans may not be as present as it once was in Haitians’ lives, it has not entirely disappeared, despite claims to the contrary. I address the tensions between efforts to archive and conserve a cultural practice while remaining mindful of the detrimental premises of salvage anthropology. The fact that kontredans emerged in a context of colonial violence and that its practitioners continue to suffer from the effects of systemic racism raises a number of questions in regard to representation and authenticity.","PeriodicalId":35038,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"347 - 367"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17442222.2020.1831155","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44211496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The paths to autonomy: plurinational reform and indigenous governance in contemporary Bolivia","authors":"M. Doyle","doi":"10.1080/17442222.2020.1821444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2020.1821444","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Bolivia, national reforms of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) government, which purport to devolve power to indigenous communities, generated disagreement among the local authorities of the highland indigenous community of Bolívar province. This paper examines why this conflict occurred and how it illustrates some of the paradoxical consequences of the MAS’ project of ‘plurinational’ reform. This situation can be explained through understanding the legacy of administrative and territorial reforms of Bolivia’s ‘neoliberal’ period and how these have shaped the local system of government and the perspectives of its leaders.","PeriodicalId":35038,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"352 - 373"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17442222.2020.1821444","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41346262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘The real indigenous are higher up’: locating race and gender in Andean Peru","authors":"F. Babb","doi":"10.1080/17442222.2020.1809080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2020.1809080","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This work considers the paradoxes of perceived differences whereby Peruvians frequently assert that those who are more indigenous or authentically Andean live ‘más arriba,’ or higher up. Historically, there has been great social and economic interdependence across ecological zones in Peru. Today, social standing is often measured in inverse proportion to the altitude of one’s origins, with Lima at sea level holding the greatest prestige. When Andeans migrate to nearby cities or to the urban coast, they often ‘upgrade’ their status by claiming to be from somewhere other than their rural home. Using a practice referred to as ‘choleando’ (racial one-upmanship), Peruvians may reject ethnic labels for themselves just as they project them on others, in an effort to show they belong in a society that excludes many of them. At the same time, desires to embrace what is Andean as the source of celebrated national cuisine, heritage, and cultural identity are in dramatic evidence as Peru builds its ‘brand’ for global consumption. In this article I trace ambivalent notions of racialized and gendered bodies and territories across three research locations, from rural peasant community to provincial city and urban capital.","PeriodicalId":35038,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"12 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17442222.2020.1809080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44210956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nationalism and revolution in Fausto Reinaga’s Bolivia: Indianism, decolonization, and ‘Two Bolivias’","authors":"Young hyun Kim","doi":"10.1080/17442222.2020.1805847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2020.1805847","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Fausto Reinaga was one of the most controversial writers in the twentieth-century Bolivia. He is known as ‘the father of Indianism’ (indianismo) in Bolivia, which is an ideology of Indian self-emancipation. This article analyzes his works in the 1950s and 1960s, showing how Bolivia’s National Revolution in 1952 indelibly impacted his thinking. It sheds light on how his Indianism resulted from his search for an ideological solution to the contradictions and limits of the Revolution, which he initially supported and later criticized for imposing a fictious mestizo homogeneity upon Indians. It argues that Indianism was a nationalist ideology to redefine the Bolivian nation in racial terms of Indian power. Reinaga theorized Indian power based on his critical relations to the revolutionary process of the 1940s-1950s. It examines how his notion of Indian power relates to his utopian view of Indian-ness and anticolonial insurgency, which promotes an alternative version of national homogeneity. It concludes with remarks on his relations to the Aymara and Quechua movements in the 1970s-1980s and to contemporary debates on decolonization and race in Bolivia.","PeriodicalId":35038,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"391 - 412"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17442222.2020.1805847","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46706302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coloniality, belonging, and indigeneity in Peruvian migration narratives","authors":"M. Cristina Alcalde","doi":"10.1080/17442222.2020.1805846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2020.1805846","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Transnational lives include not only the mobility of individuals, but of racialized discourses that reinforce and sustain inequalities and exclusion. Building on the seminal work of migration scholars Grosfoguel, Oso, and Christou, this article brings together Quijano's coloniality of power with cultural critic Aviles’s insights on contemporary forms of discrimination and anthropologist Briones’s conceptualization of ‘internal Others’ to center racialization in approaching contemporary middle-class Peruvian identities across borders. I suggest that similarly to how racialization is key to the processes of creating internal Others in Peru, middle-class Peruvians seek to assert higher status in relation to other migrants in the U.S. and Canada by employing discourses of indigeneity and internal Others. These forms of status-marking through racialization and differentiation are central to contemporary peruanidad within and beyond Peru’s physical borders, and to understanding the role of race, racism, and coloniality of thought among Peruvians outside Peru.","PeriodicalId":35038,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"58 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17442222.2020.1805846","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48376254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Latin American readings of Gramsci and the Bolivian indigenous nationalist state","authors":"M. Coletta, Malayna Raftopoulos","doi":"10.1080/17442222.2020.1805845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2020.1805845","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article engages critically with recent theories on the eclipse of Gramsci’s notion of hegemony in the face of twenty-first-century practices of grassroots activism. It demonstrates how hegemony, and other concepts reworked from Gramscian thought, have been used as the theoretical basis for assimilating indigeneity into a new form of nationalism in Bolivia. The first section of this piece examines the role of Gramscian thought in the emergence of Latin American decolonial thinking, while the second section maps out its most influential Bolivian interpretations. Finally, the third section shows how these principles have played out in the MAS movement and Evo Morales’ presidencies (2006–2019). This article argues that the Morales administration, by weaving concepts of Gramscian provenance such as ‘motley society’ and the ‘apparent state’ into the Plurinational principle, created a new nationalist conservatism in the form of a hegemonic indigenous state that contradicts the basic theoretical and legal premises of Plurinationality.","PeriodicalId":35038,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"47 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17442222.2020.1805845","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41651565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unpacking disavowals of indigeneity in Bolivia","authors":"Jonathan Alderman","doi":"10.1080/17442222.2020.1799492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2020.1799492","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT \u0000 Beyond Indigeneity: Coca Growing and the Emergence of a New Middle Class in Bolivia . By Alessandra Pellegrini Calderón. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2016. Deference Revisited: Andean Ritual in the Plurinational State. By Into Goudsmit. Carolina Academic Press, Durham, North Carolina, 2016.The Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia. By Benjamin Dangl. AK Press, Edinburgh, 2019. Coca Yes, Cocaine No: How Bolivia’s Coca Growers Reshaped Democracy. By Thomas Grisaffi. Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2019.","PeriodicalId":35038,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"430 - 438"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17442222.2020.1799492","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45487455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}