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" After the Decolonial examines the sources of Latin American decolonial thought, its reading of precursors like Fanon and Levinas and its historical interpretations. In extended treatments of the anthropology of ethnicity, law and religion and of the region's modern culture, Lehmann sets out the bases of a more grounded interpretation, drawing inspiration from Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia and Chile, and from a lifelong engagement with issues of development, religion and race. The decolonial places race at the centre of its interpretation of injustice and, together with the multiple other exclusions dividing Latin American societies, traces it to European colonialism. But it has not fully absorbed the uniquely unsettling nature of Latin American race relations, which perpetuate prejudice and inequality yet are marked by métissage , pervasive borrowing and mimesis. Moreover, it has not integrated its own disruptive feminist branch, and it has taken little interest in either the interwoven history of indigenous religion and hegemonic Catholicism or the evangelical tsunami which has upended so many assumptions about the region's culture. In a region devastated by COVID-19, with the world's worst indices of inequality and violence, the time has come to place gender and social justice at the forefront along with race"--

"Brazil has developed a distinctive response to the injustices inflicted by the country's race relations regime. Despite the mixed racial background of most Brazilians, the state recognizes people's racial classification according to a simple official scheme in which those self-assigned as black, together with "brown" and "indigenous" (preto-pardo-indigena), can qualify for specially allocated resources, most controversially quota places at public universities. Although this quota system has been somewhat successful, many other issues that disproportionately affect the country's black population remain unresolved, and systemic policies to reduce structural inequality remain off the agenda. In The Prism of Race, David Lehmann explores, theoretically and practically, issues of race, the state, social movements, and civil society and then goes beyond these themes to ask whether Brazilian politics will forever circumvent the severe problems facing the society by co-optation and tinkering with unjust structures. Lehmann disrupts the paradigm of current scholarly thought on Brazil, placing affirmative action disputes in their political and class context, bringing back the concept of state corporatism, and questioning the strength and independence of Brazilian civil society"--

Chapter 1: Introduction; Multiculturalism and 'interculturalidad': The Material and the Symbolic; The Indigenous and the Popular in the Administration of Justice; Recognition's Unavoidable Muddles; Role of the State; Observers and Observed Dealing with Constructed Identities; Respect; Detachment and Attachment in Ethnography; Activist and Collaborative Research; Recognition and Inclusion; Ethnogenesis, Resemanticization and Corporatism; References Chapter 2: Multiculturalism as a Juridical Weapon: The Use and Abuse of the Concept of 'Pueblo Originario' in Agrarian Conflicts in Michoacán, Mexico Introduction: Legitimate and Ideological Recognition; Red Spots: Between Security and the Agrarian Counter-Reform; The Tarascan Plateau (Meseta Tarasca): One troublespot for 58 Agrarian Communities in Conflict; The Purhépecha: A Native People or an Indigenous People?; The Pueblo Indigena: A 'Community of Communities'?; Conclusion; References; Glossary and Acronyms; Chapter 3: Paradoxes of Multiculturalism in Bolivia; Introduction Evo Morales and the Indigenous StateIndigenous Citizenship; Differentiated Indigenous Citizens; Indigenous Colonists; The TIPNIS Case; Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: The Ethnicization of Agrarian Conflicts: An Argentine Case; Introduction: National Context; Local Context; Historical Background; The Colonial Period and Independence; Two Contrasting Situations: Amaicha and Quilmes; Amaicha: A Special Case; Quilmes and Its Bosses; Winds of Change; The Movement During the Dirty War: 1976-1983; Legislation in Support of Native Populations: From the International to the Local Arena Amaicha and the Recognition of Land Title: The Indian RedefinedThe Quilmes Order Is Turned on Its Head; An Indian Organization Gains in Stature; Quilmes' Landowners on the Defensive; The Role of the 'Human Rights Indians'; Indian Communities Proliferate in the Region; The Landowners' Response; Contrasting Stories: From Violence to Impunity; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5

This book presents a challenging view of the adoption and co-option of multiculturalism in Latin America from six scholars with extensive experience of grassroots movements and intellectual debates. It raises serious questions of theory, method, and interpretation for both social scientists and policymakers on the basis of cases in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Multicultural policies have enabled people to recover the land of their ancestors, administer justice in accordance with their traditions, provide recognition as full citizens of the nation, and promote affirmative action to enable them to take the place in society which is theirs by right. The message of this book is that while the multicultural response has done much to raise the symbolic recognition of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples nationally and internationally, its application calls for a profound reappraisal in spheres such as land, gender, institutional design, and equal opportunities. Written by scholars with long-term and in-depth engagement in Latin America, the chapters show that multicultural theories and policies, which assume racial and cultural boundaries to be clear-cut, overlook the pervasive reality of racial and cultural mixture and place excessive confidence in identity politics.

The studies in this book, first published in 1979, offer an all-encompassing contemporary critique of the sociology, politics and economics of development as they are 'conventionally' taught and disseminated. They also seek to outline the beginnings of a new approach, while not sparing from criticism the simplistic of contemporary radical theories. The reissue will prove of significant interest to the teaching of development studies at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels.

"Sophisticated study of religion and political culture compares rhetoric of 'the people' in the practices of Catholic Christian Base Communities and Pentecostal or Neo-Pentecostal congregations. Concludes that basista communities build small but powerful dissident elites among the poor, understandable in traditional terms of the relation between elite and popular culture, while crente congregations lead masses of the poor to break radically with what is rhetorically 'popular' and thus with familiar Brazilian political bargains"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58

For centuries Andean civilization and ecology has afforded a special fascination for European travellers and officials. In this volume, eight writers - anthropologists, economists and historians working in Bolivia, Britain, France, Ireland and Peru - describe and analyse aspects of rural society in various Andean regions. They focus on the impact of capitalist development on both the peasant economy and the landed elite in the Andes and the ways in which that impact has been shaped by a specific Andean culture and a characteristic Andean ecology and climate. Their discussion of Andean specificity centres on the notion of verticality, first developed by John Murra to describe political and economic adaptation to climatic variation in the Andean eco-system. The volume represents a substantial contribution to our understanding of Andean rural society and the nature of the Latin American peasantry and peasant economy. It will appeal to all those interested in economic anthropology, Latin America, peasant studies and the capitalist world-economy