Rethinking Indigenous Politics in the Era of the “Indio Permitido”
Rethinking Indigenous Politics in the Era of the “Indio Permitido”
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重新思考“印第安人许可”时代的原住民政治
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10.1080/10714839.2004.11724509
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2004
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C. R. Hale
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C. R. Hale
" Dean" of Maya studies in Guatemala. 2 A prolific scholar and public intellectual, Cojti deeply influenced the debate on Maya cultural and political rights. Many dominant culture ladinos associated him with the most assertive of Maya demands that directly challenge their long-standing racial privilege. To express their anxieties about these challenges, they often distinguished between principles they endorsed, like the idea of cultural equality, and" extreme" Maya demands that they associated with violence and conflict. When asked to elaborate, they would often turn personal:" Ah, Demetrio Cojti, for example-he is 100% radical." 3In 1998, I talked with Cojtl about the contradictory mix of opportunity and refusal in the policies of the Arzi administration (1996-2000) toward Maya, which he summarized succinctly:" Before, they just told us' no.'Now, their response is' si, pero'['yes, but']." When Cojti later accepted the post of Vice Minister of Education in the newly elected Portillo government, speculation reigned. Had he" sold out"? Was he out to test the limits of" si, pero"? Gaining experience for a time when Mayas would control the state? Three years into the Portillo administration (2000-2004), I lunched with some ladino schoolteachers-participants in the teachers' strike of 2003 against neoliberal downsizing. They scoffed when I remarked that, a few years earlier, they had described Cojti as a radical:" He's part of the government now, even worse than the others."