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Viatori, Maximilian Stefan, III.

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The language of "authenticity": Shifting constructions of Zapara identity, the politics of indigenous representation, and the state in Amazonian Ecuador.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The language of "authenticity": Shifting constructions of Zapara identity, the politics of indigenous representation, and the state in Amazonian Ecuador./
Author:	Viatori, Maximilian Stefan, III.
Description:	309 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Martha J. Macri.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-07A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3182541
ISBN:	9780542237850

The language of "authenticity": Shifting constructions of Zapara identity, the politics of indigenous representation, and the state in Amazonian Ecuador.
Viatori, Maximilian Stefan, III.

The language of "authenticity": Shifting constructions of Zapara identity, the politics of indigenous representation, and the state in Amazonian Ecuador. - 309 p.

Adviser: Martha J. Macri.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2005.

Dominant and subaltern actors alike historically have used language to define and contest Indians' place within power hierarchies, labor systems and local economies, and the nation-state in Ecuador. This study is an exploration of how the Ecuadorian state and international regulatory bodies, like the World Bank, envision local cultural differences, such as indigenous languages, as "authentic" indicators of indigenous identities. This construction, I argue, serves to shape Indians as ideal neoliberal citizens that are not reliant on the state for improving their economic well-being, but attend to their own needs through local free market initiatives. In this study, I show how Zapara communities and their leaders in Amazonian Ecuador used the revitalization of the Zapara language as an indication of their "authentic" cultural uniqueness. By doing so, these communities obtained recognition and financial resources from the Ecuadorian state, the World Bank, and international development agencies. The Zapara, however, also exploited these resources to contest neoliberal discourses of indigenous rights and demand greater participation for Indians in the Ecuadorian state. While the effects of neoliberal rights on indigenous identity are certainly real, I assert that Zapara organization, identity formation, and political activity cannot solely be reduced to expressions of neoliberalism nor indigenous opposition to it. By examining Zapara identity formation and Ecuadorian statecraft from different periods and sites, I reveal that each invokes, legitimizes and contests distinct, overlapping, and sometimes contradictory, political imaginaries of the "indigenous" as well as the "state."

ISBN: 9780542237850Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

The language of "authenticity": Shifting constructions of Zapara identity, the politics of indigenous representation, and the state in Amazonian Ecuador.
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