¿Cómo las mujeres se implican, interpretan y gestionan la emergencia política y cultural indígena de las últimas décadas del siglo xx ;y los primeros años del siglo xxi? ¿Cuáles son sus proyectos de sociedad? ¿Qué experiencias orientan estos proyectos? ¿Cómo ven su futuro, en tanto que mujeres, indígenas y ciudadanas en el contexto de la globalización? Esta publicación es el resultado de un seminario de investigación, «Modernidad indígena, indigeneidad e innovación social desde la perspectiva de género», en el que se pusieron encima de la mesa todas estas preguntas y muchas más, en un debate tan actual como necesario. El libro es un material ineludible para conocer el constatado doble rol de las mujeres indígenas: garantes de la tradición por un lado, y gestoras de los cambios sociales y políticos de sus comunidades y grupos por otro.

¿Cómo las mujeres se implican, interpretan y gestionan la emergencia política y cultural indígena de las últimas décadas del siglo xx y los primeros años del siglo xxi? ¿Cuáles son sus proyectos de sociedad? ¿Qué experiencias orientan estos proyectos? ¿Cómo ven su futuro, en tanto que mujeres, indígenas y ciudadanas en el contexto de la globalización? Esta publicación es el resultado de un seminario de investigación, «Modernidad indígena, indigeneidad e innovación social desde la perspectiva de género», en el que se pusieron encima de la mesa todas estas preguntas y muchas más, en un debate tan actual como necesario. El libro es un material ineludible para conocer el constatado doble rol de las mujeres indígenas: garantes de la tradición por un lado, y gestoras de los cambios sociales y políticos de sus comunidades y grupos por otro.

From today’s vantage point it can be denied that the confidence in the abilities of globalism, mobility, and cosmopolitanism to illuminate cultural signification processes of our time has been severely shaken. In the face of this crisis, a key concept of this globalizing optimism as World Literature has been for the past twenty years necessarily is in the need of a comprehensive revision. World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise offers a wide range of contributions approaching the blind spots of the globally oriented Humanities for phenomena that in one way or another have gone beyond the discourses, aesthetics, and political positions of liberal cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization. Departing basically (but not exclusively) from different examples of Latin American literatures and cultures in globalized contexts, this volume provides innovative insights into critical readings of World Literature and its related conceptualizations. A timely book that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a mustread for all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of literature.

Cloth and Human Experience explores a wide variety of cultures and eras, discussing production and trade, economics, and symbolic and spiritual associations.

Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.

This book brings together two of today's leading concerns in development policy - the urgent need to prioritize poverty reduction and the particular circumstances of indigenous peoples in both developing and industrialized countries. The contributors analyse patterns of indigenous disadvantage worldwide, the centrality of the right to self-determination, and indigenous people's own diverse perspectives on development. Several fundamental and difficult questions are explored, including the right balance to be struck between autonomy and participation, and the tension between a new wave of assimilationism in the guise of 'pro-poor' and 'inclusionary' development policies and the fact that such policies may in fact provide new spaces for indigenous peoples to advance their demands. In this regard, one overall conclusion that emerges is that both differences and commonalities must be recognised in any realistic study of indigenous poverty.

This book analyses understandings of medical positivist practices and the psychiatric 'treatment' of incest and gender-based violence.