La política por los espiritus: escenarios multiculturales en "zonas de contacto" (Valle de Cauca, Colombia)

Based on a recent ethnographic field-work among the Embera-Chami in the multi-ethnic region of the Cauca Valley (Colombia), the analysis of what occurs in interethnic meetings organized under the multicultural legislation will illuminate the paradoxical inerdependance between the institutionalized concept of "culture", a culturalist singular entity, and the political homogenization of ethnic groups. The state control of interethnic relations, along with the competition for visibility between groups of equal status under the national and international law appear as emerging dimensions of the in...

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