At the risk of being heard : identity, indigenous rights, and postcolonial states / with a foreword by Winona LaDuke ; edited by Bartholomew Dean and Jerome M. Levi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Jerome M. Levi and Bartholomew Dean -- Legalism and loyalism: European, African, and human "rights" / Parker Shipton -- Indigenous rights and the politics of identity in post-apartheid southern Africa / Richard B. Lee -- Hot and cold: interethnic relations in Siberia / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- Indigenous rights issues in Malaysia / Kirk Endicott -- Nationalism and cultural survival in our time: a sketch / Benedict R. Anderson -- Indigenous autonomy in Mexico / Lynn Stephen -- At the margins of power: gender hierarchy and the politics of ethnic mobilization among the Urarina / Bartholomew Dean -- Indigenous rights and representations in northern Mexico: the diverse contexts of Rarámuri voice and silence / Jerome M. Levi -- Reconciling personal and impersonal worlds: aboriginal struggles for self-determination / Ian S. McIntosh -- From elimination to an uncertain future: changing policies toward indigenous peoples / David Maybury-Lewis -- Contributors -- Index.

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