Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Manuel QuintÃn Lame and his political movement -- Conversations between indigenous communities and the central state in the 1930s and 1940s -- The 1950s: la violencia in Cauca, state responses, and Riochiquito -- The 1960s and the birth of Division of Indigenous Affairs -- Ethnic citizenship in Colombia: the experience of the Regional Indigenous Council of the Cauca in southwestern Colombia from 1970 to 1990 -- Conclusion.
Summary
This book provides a vivid account of how the indigenous communities of Cauca in southwestern Colombia engaged with the Colombian central state. Troyan examines the state initiatives in the 1930s, '50s, '60s, and '70s toward indigenous communities in Cauca, which sheds light on the political and social construction of Colombian indigenous identity.
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