Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America

"In recent years the concept and study of "civil society" has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America, this volume explores the multiple potentialities of civil society's growth and critically assesses the potential for sustained change. Much recent literature has focused on the remarkable gains made by civil society and the chapters in this volume reinforce this trend while also showing the complexity of civil society - that civil society can itself sometimes be uncivil. In doing so, these insightful contributions speak not only to Latin American area studies but also to the changing shape of global systems of political economy in general."--BOOK JACKET Introduction: Indigenous Peoples, Neo-liberal Regimes, And Varieties Of Civil Society In Latin America / Edward F. Fischer -- Indigenous Politics And The State: The Andean Highlands In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries / Michiel Baud -- La Mano Dura And The Violence Of Civil Society In Bolivia / Daniel M. Goldstein [and Others] -- Empire/multitude, State/civil Society : Rethinking Topographies Of Power Through Transnational Connectivity In Ecuador And Beyond / Suzana Sawyer -- The Power Of Educaor's Indigenous Communities In An Era Of Cultural Pluralism / Rudi Colloredo-mansfeld -- Civil Society And The Indigenous Movement In Colombia: The Consejo Regional Indígena Del Cauca / Joanne Rappaport -- Indigenous Nations In Guatemalan Democracy And The State: A Tentative Assessment / Demetrio Cojtí Cuxil -- Reformulating The Guatemalan State: The Role Of Maya Intellectuals And Civil Society Discourse / Maria Elena Casaús Arzú -- El Otro Lado: Local Ends And Development In Q'eqchi' Maya Community / Avery Dickins -- The Political Uses Of Maya Medicine: Civil Organization In Chiapas And The Ventriloquism Effect / Pedro Pitarch. Edited By Edward F. Fischer. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.