Marisol de la Cadena
University of California
Davis y Orin Starn
ostarn@duke.edu
Universidad de Duke, Durham, USA
Abstract:
In this article we historicized the idea of indigenous and the notion of indigeneity. As a relationship, as a discursive formation, rather than as an identity, indigeneity involves not only indigenous people, but also people identified themselves as non indigenous. Considering the local historical differences ―articulated with nation-states formations― we explain the difference between ethnicity and indigeneity, the blurredness of the boundaries between those who identify themselves as indigenous and who don’t do it, the conditions in which the indigeneity in the contemporary diaspora happened, and the problems of the indigenizing essentialism.
Keywords: indigeneity, indigenizing essentialism, Diaspora, indigenous rights, social movements.
