Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the State (Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change)

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Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the Stateprovides a concise introduction to the process of modernization and its effect on tribalism and ethnic parochialism. Part of the Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change series, this text focuses on key issues affecting indigenous and ethnic groups worldwide. Ethnic conflicts proliferate throughout the world as indigenous peoples are becoming increasingly vocal in demanding their rights, including the right to be different. Readers are invited to reexamine their ideas about the state, the role of ethnicity in it, and the peculiar situation of indigenous peoples, who are ethnic minorities alien to the states in which they live. Foreword to the Series vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Indigenous Peoples I GENOCIDE IN THE AMERICAS 1 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: SUBORDINATED AND MARGINALIZED 6 IMPERIALISM AND EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 11 ETHNOCIDE AND ITS JUSTIFICATIONS 13 Mexico 13 Brazil 18 ETHNOCIDE: THE COUNTER-ARGUMENTS 25 Nomads 26 Backwardness and Cultural Survival 29 The Supposed Threat to the State 31 INDIA: WHERE INDIGENOUS IS SCHEDULED 32 SOUTHEAST ASIA AND INDONESIA: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND ETHNIC MINORITIES 37 AFRICA AND THE POLITICS OF TRIBALISM 42 CONCLUSION 44 Ethnic Groups 47 UNCERTAIN ETHNICITY 47 V vi • CONTENTS LARGE MULTIETHNIC STATES 51 The Former Soviet Union 51 China 63 ETHNICITY WITHIN THE SYSTEM 68 Indonesia 68 Spain 73 CONCLUSION 77 Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing 81 RWANDA 81 THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA 88 CONCLUSION 99 The State 1 05 STATE AND NATION 105 IDEAL STATE AND REAL STATES 112 ETHNICITY AND THE STATE RECONSIDERED 114 TRIBALISM AS MARGINALITY AND METAPHOR 121 Different States, Different World 1 3 1 References 137 Index 143