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Identidad étnica, modernidad y desarrollo en América Latina: Nuevas miradas sobre viejos temas.

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...

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Published in:European Review of Latin American & Caribbean Studies no. 120; pp. 49 - 59
Main Author: Solo de Zaldívar, Víctor Bretón
Format: Article
Published: Centre for Latin American Research & Documentation (CEDLA) Jul-Dec2025
Subjects:
Latin America
Ethnic groups
Identity (Psychology)
Social groups
Social processes
Latin Americans
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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 transsecular 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.