Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change

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Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change. Edited by Edward L. Cleary and Timothy J. Steigenga. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. 304p. $24.95.

Latin America's indigenous peoples' social movements are gaining increasing attention from political scientists. Once the exclusive interest of anthropologists, sociologists, and historians, by the 1990s political scientists could no longer ignore the implications of the emergence of regional, national, and international indigenous political actors for the development of democracy and the state. By the end of the decade, political scientists had produced a handful of scholarly books on indigenous peoples' politics (e.g., Alison Brysk, From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America, 2000; Donna Lee Van Cott, The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America, 2000; Deborah J. Yashar, Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge, 2005) and many other comparative and monographic studies are in the publishing pipeline or at the dissertation stage.