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BOOKS

Maybury-Lewis' book, The Politics of Ethnicity

Maybury-Lewis, David

The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

The traditional, sometimes centuries old, relations between states and indigenous peoples are now changing and being re-discussed. The book provides an overview of current problems facing indigenous peoples in their relation with national states in Latin America, from the highlands of Mexico to the jungles of Brazil.

Macdonald's book, Ethnicity and Culture Amidst New Neighbors

Macdonald, Theodore

Ethnicity and Culture Amidst New "Neighbors":
The Runa of Ecuador's Amazon Region
Needham, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998

This ethnography chronicles the recent history of the Runa, a Quichua-speaking Indian population in Ecuador's amazon region. Theodore Macdonald has been following the Runa's adaptation to continuous changes around and amongst them since 1974.

Maybury-Lewis' book, Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Goups, and the State

Maybury-Lewis, David

Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the State Needham, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.

This book examines the process of modernization and its effect on tribalism and ethnic parochialism. Ethnic conflicts proliferate throughout the world as indigenous peoples are becoming increasingly vocal in demanding their rights, including the right to be different. We are invited to reexamine our ideas about the state, the role of ethnicity in it and the peculiar situation of indigenous peoples, who are ethnic minorities alien to the states in which they live.

Maybury-Lewis' and Macdonald's book, Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change Series

Maybury-Lewis, David and
Theodore Macdonald (Eds.)

Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change Series Needham, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Sharply focused on key issues affecting indigenous and ethnic groups worldwide, this series of ethnographies builds on introductory material by going further in-depth and allowing students to explore, virtually first-hand, a particular issue and its impact on a culture.

Schirmer's book, Guatemalan Military Project

Schirmer, Jennifer

Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.

Jennifer Schirmer documents the military's role in human rights violations through a series of extensive interviews striking in their brutal frankness and unique in their first-hand descriptions of the campaign against Guatemala's citizens.