Indigenous Politics and the State

The Andean Highlands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Bibliographic Data

ID18987671
AuthorsM Baud (0000-0002-5277-3596, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume51
Issue2
Publication date2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Analysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0155-977X • E-ISSN: 1558-5727
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/sa.2007.510202
OpenAlexW2132935920
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This article examines the emergence of indigenous movements in contemporary Latin America, focusing on the Andean countries. It is argued that we can understand the dynamics of these movements only if we see them in the historical context of the interaction between indigenous populations and the emerging Andean states in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The article reaches two important conclusions. First, this interaction was not purely antagonistic. Indigenous leaders used state legislation to achieve goals and often obtained support from state officials and sympathetic intellectuals (often called indigenistas). Second, it is clear that indigenous movements cannot automatically be considered progressive or emancipatory. They are just as often enacted in pursuit of backward-looking and even conservative objectives

Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Ethnology · Indigenous · Indigenous rights · Latin Americans · Legislation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Ecology · History · Indigenous Cultures and History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America

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