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The origins of indigenism : human rights and the politics of identity / Ronald Niezen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520936690
  • 0520936698
  • 0585466416
  • 9780585466415
  • 1597347876
  • 9781597347877
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Origins of indigenism.DDC classification:
  • 306/.08 21
LOC classification:
  • GN380 .N54 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A New Global Phenomenon?; 2 The Origins of the International Movement of Indigenous Peoples; 3 Sources of Global Identity; 4 Relativism and Rights; 5 The New Politics of Resistance; 6 Indigenism, Ethnicity, and the State; 7 Conclusion; Notes; Index.
Summary: Ronald Niezen examines the ways the recent emergence of an internationally recognized identity - 'indigenous peoples' - intersects with another recent international movement - the development of universal human rights laws and principles. This movement makes use of human rights instruments and the international organizations of states to resist the political, cultural, and economic incursions of individual states.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index.

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Ronald Niezen examines the ways the recent emergence of an internationally recognized identity - 'indigenous peoples' - intersects with another recent international movement - the development of universal human rights laws and principles. This movement makes use of human rights instruments and the international organizations of states to resist the political, cultural, and economic incursions of individual states.

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A New Global Phenomenon?; 2 The Origins of the International Movement of Indigenous Peoples; 3 Sources of Global Identity; 4 Relativism and Rights; 5 The New Politics of Resistance; 6 Indigenism, Ethnicity, and the State; 7 Conclusion; Notes; Index.

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