Preface/Acknowledgments

Editor's Introduction

Section 1: Mexico and Central America

1. A New Dawn or a Cycle Restored? Regional Dynamics and Cultural Politics in Indigenous Mexico, 1978-2001

Jerome M. Levi

2. Appropriating the Indigenous, Creating Complicity: The Guatemalan Military and the Sanctioned Maya Jennifer Schiriner

Section II: The Colombian War Zone

3. The Kuna of Panama: Continuing Threats to Land and Autonomy

James Howe

4. Caught in the Crossfire: Colombia's Indigenous Peoples during the 1990s

Jean Jackson

5. The Politics of Identity and Cultural Difference in the Colombian Amazon: Claiming Indigenous Rights in the Putumayo Region

Maria Clemencia Ratnirez

Section III: The Andean Countries

6. Ecuador's Indian Movement: Pawn in a Short Game or Agent in State Reconfiguration?

Theodore Macdonald, Jr.

7. State Power and Indigenous Peoples in Peruvian Amazonia: A Lost Decade, 1990-2000

Bartholomew Dean

8. Andean Culture, Indigenous Identity, and the State in Peru

Paul H. Gelles

9. Paradoxes of Liberal Indigenism: Indigenous Movements, State Processes, and Intercultural Reform in Bolivia

Bret Gustafson

Section IV: Lowland South American Countries

10. New Rules for the Game: Paraguayan Indigenous Groups and the Transition to Democracy

Richard Reed

11. For Reasons of State: Paradoxes of Indigenist Policy in Brazil

David Maybury-Lewis

Conclusion

Index