At the risk of being heard : identity, indigenous rights, and postcolonial states /
Identity, indigenous rights, and postcolonial states.
with a foreword by Winona LaDuke ; edited by Bartholomew Dean and Jerome M. Levi.
- xii, 355 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Jerome M. Levi and Bartholomew Dean -- Legalism and loyalism: European, African, and human "rights" / Indigenous rights and the politics of identity in post-apartheid southern Africa / Hot and cold: interethnic relations in Siberia / Indigenous rights issues in Malaysia / Nationalism and cultural survival in our time: a sketch / Indigenous autonomy in Mexico / At the margins of power: gender hierarchy and the politics of ethnic mobilization among the Urarina / Indigenous rights and representations in northern Mexico: the diverse contexts of Rarámuri voice and silence / Reconciling personal and impersonal worlds: aboriginal struggles for self-determination / From elimination to an uncertain future: changing policies toward indigenous peoples / Parker Shipton -- Richard B. Lee -- Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- Kirk Endicott -- Benedict R. Anderson -- Lynn Stephen -- Bartholomew Dean -- Jerome M. Levi -- Ian S. McIntosh -- David Maybury-Lewis -- Contributors -- Index.
"Leading experts in the analysis of ethnicity and indigenous rights explore the questions of why and how the circumstances of indigenous peoples are improving in some places of the world, while their human rights continue to be abused by others."--Amazon.com.