Peoples of the earth ethnonationalism, democracy and the indigenous challenge in Latin America

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-275) and index.

Introduction -- The "miner's canary" of democracy -- Elite neglect and "rediscovery" -- Is democracy a zero-sum game? -- Imagined communities : marxism and the Indian nation-state -- Indian lands, "ungoverned spaces," and failing states -- Bolivia : unraveling a present past -- Perú : the emergence of the unbowed "other" -- Ecuador : a populist test of plurinationalism -- Guatemala : many nations within a single nation-state -- Chile : contesting the lands of the "people of the earth" -- Colombia : special rights within a context of lawlessness -- Toward a new American identity -- Conclusions.