Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Las Casas' ideological and political practice / Elias Sevilla-Casas
  • Alternatives to ethnocide: human zoos, living museums, and real people / John H. Bodley
  • The right of the Third World to develop in its own way and remarks on the idea of 'change' / Teodoro Binder
  • The gridiron plan and the caste system in colonial Central America / S.D. Markman
  • The persistence of the Baroque in Peru and Mexico / Gladys H. Kelsey
  • Ecuador: the indigenous tribute system as a mechanism of exploitation during the colonial period and the first years of independence / Nicanor Jacome and Ines Llumiquinga
  • Danish colonialism in the West Indies: a case of transculturation failure / Polly Pope
  • Agrarian reform in Chile and its impact on Araucanian Indian communities / Bernardo Berdichewsky
  • Jungle Quechua ethnicity: an Ecuadorian case study / Norman E. Whitten, Jr.
  • Jivaro head hunters in a headless time / Henning Siverts
  • The Fiesta of the Indian in Quibdo, Colombia / Nina S. de Friedemann
  • Crosses and souls / Alicja Iwanska
  • Chinantec messianism: the mediator of the divine / Alicia Mabel Barabas
  • The role of peasant organizations in the struggle against multinational corporations: the Cuban case / Gerrit Huizer
  • The cultural dependency of rural communities and peasant guerrillas in Latin America / Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski.