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Recent decades have witnessed an efflorescence of identity construction and activism of indigenous peoples throughout the world. In the process, a multiplicity of indigenous actors has emerged with new discourses and strategies seeking transformative change to their inherent rights and represent. In their complex projects of self-affirmation to overcome political and economic marginalization, the indigenous peoples are deploying culture as an important resource. ...
In recent decades ethnic resurgence and related conflicts have become endemic world over, raising in turn, a number of issues of governance for policy-makes. Of these, issues relating to indigenous ethnicity and its resurgence have become critical. The books focuses on such issues of indigenous ethnicity and purports to examine in some depth the governance of indigenous people in the region of Latin America where they constitute a significant numerical ethnic ...
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are secluded worlds of enchantment that are bound to overwhelm the traveller by their mysterious aura, azure waters, pristine beaches and palm fronds. Though they have come a long way since their moments of glory and pathos, yet many misconceptions about the place continue to exist. And, therein lies the germ of the book which is an attempt to capture the true essence of these islands and portray them with the great felicity they ...