ANTH 161: Indigenous People and the State in Latin America

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours

Catalog page 98

Prerequisites: ANTH 001 or ANTH 001H or ANTH 001W or consent of instructor

Description: Reviews the historical processes and regional circumstances that have governed relations between indigenous peoples and Latin American states. Studies concepts of nationalism, ethnicity, and the state in the context of indigenous efforts to resist assimilation and to gain limited autonomy. Compares with the problems and prospects of multiethnic societies worldwide.

Cross-listing: Cross-listed with LNST 161.

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