"""&Iquest;que Va a Pasar Con Los Indios Cuando Todos Seamos Indios?"" Ethnic Rights and Reindianization in Southwestern Colombian Amazonia"

As the reindianization process (a generic Indianness) transforms into a reethnization (particularizing and specific) one, the regional terrain hosted a competition of identity politics that unveiled an extraordinary and hierarchical diversity of subject positions, social experiences and cultural identities underlying both the category of indigenous as well as that of mestizo . Color, a colonial legacy used to measure the degree of the racial-ethnic mixing, proved to still be alive. Color supported the claims of reethnized colonos who could not display the cultural diacritics of their ethnic identity, and puts a limit on the mestizo crossing borders. Through the delineation of Indian and mestizo hierarchies among old and new 'Indians,' reethnicized populations have resignified mestizaje and Indianness, making clearer the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion within the new pluriethnic imagined Colombian nation.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Chaves Chamorro, Margarita A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• William Kelleher

• Anthropology, Cultural

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3198941

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85267