Seeing Indians (Paperback)

Virginia Q. Tilley

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Published by University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 2005

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Paperback. Since the 1930s, government claims and popular thought within El Salvador have held that the country no longer holds any Indian population. This book explores why this claim has endured despite the existence of substantial indigenous communities within the country's territory. Drawing on history, anthropology, and archaeology, Virginia Tilley delves into the history of Salvadoran racial thought and nation-building to illuminate the political motives for eradicating Indians from the country's national consciousness. Part I draws from the author's own ethnographic research in El Salvador and Guatemala to show how 'Indian-ness' has persisted, in contested forms, within El Salvador. Part II traces how the Salvadoran definition of being Indian has been altered to fit within the country's desired image as a racially unified society -- and to erase Indians from public records after 1932. The author explains in Part III the motives driving the myth of Indian disappearance and ends with a look at the debate that raged in the 1990s regarding El Salvador's indigenous peoples' attempts to express themselves politically. As Tilley notes, the transnational indigenous rights movement, translated into potent funding leverage by non-indigenous donor agencies, has ""actually generated new difficulties for the Salvador indigenous communities and their movements for national recognition by erecting new standards for 'being Indian' that clash with older ideas and local experience. A cross disciplinary study of the political motives for eradicating indigenous identity in El Salvador. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
Seeing Indians (Paperback)
Author
Virginia Q. Tilley
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM
Publication year
2005
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0826339255
ISBN 13
9780826339256

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