Identidad étnica, modernidad y desarrollo en América Latina

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Abstract

The study of the relations of domination exercised over Indigenous peoples, as well as their responses to these strategies, has been a classic theme of Latin American studies. In this article, I want to explore the possibilities this theme offers by tracing the historical interweaving of two vectors that have helped shape the meanings and signifiers of Indigenous collective identities. These are the modernity-development tandem (modernity understood as a trans-secular process and development as its contemporary derivative), and ethnicity as a political platform that forms a significant component of the strategies of the subaltern sectors.