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Ethnology of Indigenous Latin America - Fall 2015 Class Announcement
July 13, 2015
Ethnology of Indigenous Latin America - Professor Michael Wroblewski
ANT 330 Description
The area of land stretching from northern
Mexico to the southern tip of South America is home to an
astonishingly diverse population of native communities, whose cultural
and linguistic practices have long captured the attention of
anthropologists. In this course we will examine case studies in the
anthropology of indigenous North, Central and South America, including
examples from ethnographic writing, documentary film and indigenous
media. We will explore the idea of what it means to be an
"indigenous" Latin American from the perspective of
contemporary indigenous people. We will also be looking at how
indigenous Latin Americans have been historically defined, described
and classified by nation-states and social scientists. Finally, we
will examine how indigenous Latin Americans continue to redefine what
it means to be "indigenous" in their ongoing struggles for
cultural autonomy and self-determination.