Indigenous Sovereignty Scenarios in Latin America and Hawaii: Parallels and Possibilities

• Autores: Jocelyn Linnekin
• Localización: Journal of Latin American Anthropology, ISSN 1085-7052, Vol. 1, Nº. 2, 1996, págs. 152-163
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • What are the conditions and considerations that predispose a state or national government to grant autonomy to �Fourth World� peoples? What political and rhetorical tactics do encapsulated native groups employ to legitimize particular sovereignty scenarios in national discourse? In their strategies, rhetoric, and fundamental structural issues, indigenous political struggles have become strikingly similar throughout the world. This paper examines public debate and activism over the design and extent of sovereignty for native Hawaiians, in comparison with Colombia's granting of indigenous self-determination rights through the 1991 Constitution. The destiny of native lands is a crucial issue in both cases, but so, too, is the symbolic value of indigenous culture in the construction of identity.