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Dignity for the voiceless : Willem Assies' anthropological work in context /

Willem Assies died in 2010 at the age of 55. The various stages of his career as a political anthropologist of Latin American illustrate how astute a researcher he was. He had a keen eye for the contradictions he observed during his fieldwork but also enjoyed theoretical debate. A distrust of power...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Assies, Willem (Autor)
Otros Autores: Salman, Ton (Editor ), Martí i Puig, Salvador (Editor ), Haar, Gemma van der, 1968- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Colección:Latin America studies ; volume 103.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Gemma van der Haar, Salvador Marti Puig, and Ton Salman
  • Of structured moves and moving structures : an overview of theoretical perspectives on social movements
  • Urban social movements, democratization, and democracy in Brazil
  • The agrarian question in Peru : some observations on the roads of capital
  • From rubber estate to simple commodity production : agrarian struggles in the northern Bolivian Amazon
  • Self-determination and the "new partnership" : the politics of Indigenous peoples and states
  • Indian justice in the Andes : re-rooting or re-routing?
  • The limits of state reform and multiculturalism in Latin America : contemporary illustrations
  • Steps forward, one step back : Indigenous peoples and autonomies in Latin America
  • David versus Goliath in Cochabamba : water rights, neoliberalism, and the revival of social protest in Bolivia
  • Neoliberalism and the re-emergence of ethnopolitics in Bolivia.