Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Indigenous Peoples, Neo-liberal Regimes, and Varieties of Civil Society in Latin America
Edward F. Fischer
Chapter 2. Indigenous Politics and the State: The Andean Highlands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Michiel Baud
Chapter 3. La Mano Dura and the Violence of Civil Society in Bolivia
Daniel M. Goldsteinwith Gloria Achá, Eric Hinojosa, and Theo Roncken
Chapter 4. Empire/Multitude—State/Civil Society: Rethinking Topographies of Power through Transnational Connectivity in Ecuador and Beyond
Suzana Sawyer
Chapter 5. The Power of Ecuador’s Indigenous Communities in an Era of Cultural Pluralism
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
Chapter 6. Civil Society and the Indigenous Movement in Colombia: The Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca
Joanne Rappaport
Chapter 7. Indigenous Nations in Guatemalan Democracy and the State: A Tentative Assessment
Demetrio Cojtí Cuxil
Chapter 8. Reformulating the Guatemalan State: The Role of Maya Intellectuals and Civil Society Discourse
Marta Elena Casaús Arzú
Chapter 9. El otro lado: Local Ends and Development in a Q’eqchi’ Maya Community
Avery Dickins
Chapter 10. The Political Uses of Maya Medicine: Civil Organizations in Chiapas and the Ventriloquism Effect
Pedro Pitarch
Bibliography
Index