Customizing indigeneity : paths to a visionary politics in Peru /

How do vision quests, river locations, and warriors relate to indigenous activism? For the Aguaruna, an ethnic group at the forefront of Peru's Amazonian Movement, incorporating practices and values they define as customary allows them to shape their own experience as modern indigenous subjects...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Greene, Shane, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Aguaruna Indians > Politics and government.
Aguaruna Indians > Ethnic identity.
Indians of South America > Peru > Politics and government.
Indians of South America > Peru > Ethnic identity.
Aguaruna > Identité ethnique.
Peuples autochtones > Pérou > Identité ethnique.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Indians of South America > Ethnic identity.
Indians of South America > Politics and government.
Peru.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Customizing indigeneity
  • Paths, rivers, and strong men
  • A how-to manual for visionary warriors
  • From schools of war to schools at war : bilingual education and becoming indigenous
  • Paths, roads, and borders : the fragmentary logic of the native community
  • Warriors of pen and paper : the customization of organizational encounters.

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