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1970s Latin America was a hotbed of theoretical and methodological innovation in the social sciences and the arts, developing novel approaches to studying social reality to support social movements. This article uses Colombian sociologist Orlando Fals Borda's field notes and his four-volume workHistoria doble de la Costato analyze how he and his colleagues, working in collaboration with the Asociación Nacional de Usuarios Campesinos on the Caribbean coast, developed the methodology of participatory action research, which attempted to erase the distinction between researchers and researched, and to rewrite the history of the peasantry from below using novel formats.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Series -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Orthography of Nasa Yuwe -- Abbreviations for Colombian Organizations -- Introduction -- 1. Frontier Nasa/Nasa de Frontera The Dilemma of the Indigenous Intellectual -- 2. Colaboradores The Predicament of Pluralism in an Intercultural Movement -- 3. Risking Dialogue Anthropological Collaborations with Nasa Intellectuals -- 4. Interculturalism and Lo Propio CRIC's Teachers as Local Intellectuals -- 5. Second Sight Nasa and Guambiano Theory -- 6. The Battle for the Legacy of Father Ulcué Spirituality in the Struggle between Region and Locality -- 7. Imagining a Pluralist Nation Intellectuals and Indigenous Special Jurisdiction -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Series -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Origins of Federal Acknowledgment Policy -- 2. The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe's Early Recognition Efforts -- 3. Tunica Activism from the Termination Era to the Self-Determination Era -- 4. Treasures: Tunica-Biloxis in the Federal Recognition Era -- 5. Tribal Enterprise and Tribal Life -- 6. Jena Choctaws under Jim Crow and outside the Federal Purview -- 7. Jena Choctaw Tribal Persistence from the Second World War to Recognition -- 8. Jena Choctaw Recognition -- 9. On the Outside, Looking In: Clifton-Choctaws, Race, and Federal Acknowledgment -- 10. Conclusions and Implications -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Studying Indigenous Activism in Latin America -- 2. The Indigenous Public Voice:The Multiple Idioms of Modernity in Native Cauca -- 3. Contested Discourses of Authority in Colombian National Indigenous Politics:The 1996 Summer Takeovers -- 4. The Multiplicity of Mayan Voices:Mayan Leadership and the Politics of Self-Representation -- 5. Voting against Indigenous Rights in Guatemala: Lessons from the 1999 Referendum -- 6. How Should an Indian Speak? Amazonian Indians and the Symbolic Politics of Language in the Global Public Sphere -- 7. Representation,Polyphony, and the Construction of Power in a Kayapó Video -- 8. Cutting through State and Class: Sources and Strategies of Self-Representation in Latin America -- Contributors -- Index

Decolonizing Native Histories is an interdisciplinary collection that grapples with the racial and ethnic politics of knowledge production and indigenous activism in the Americas. It analyzes the relationship of language to power and empowerment, and advocates for collaborations between community members, scholars, and activists that prioritize the rights of Native peoples to decide how their knowledge is used. The contributors—academics and activists, indigenous and nonindigenous, from disciplines including history, anthropology, linguistics, and political science—explore the challenges of decolonization.These wide-ranging case studies consider how language, the law, and the archive have historically served as instruments of colonialism and how they can be creatively transformed in constructing autonomy. The collection highlights points of commonality and solidarity across geographical, cultural, and linguistic boundaries and also reflects deep distinctions between North and South. Decolonizing Native Histories looks at Native histories and narratives in an internationally comparative context, with the hope that international collaboration and understanding of local histories will foster new possibilities for indigenous mobilization and an increasingly decolonized future

In recent years the concept and study of "civil society" has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America, this volume explores the multiple potentialities of civil society's growth and critically assesses the potential for sustained change. Much recent literature has focused on the remarkable gains made by civil society and the chapters in this volume reinforce this trend while also showing the complexity of civil society - that civil society can itself sometimes be uncivil. In doing so, these insightful contributions speak not only to Latin American area studies but also to the changing shape of global systems of political economy in general