Bibliography - Through the Lens of Culture: Indigeneity in Contemporary Latin America

Additional readings:

  • Alvarez, Sonia E. (2019) “Feminismos en Movimiento, Feminismos en Protesta.” Revista Punto Género. 11: 73-102. 
  • Báez, Jillian M. (2022) “Performing Representational Labor: Blackness, Indigeneity, and Legibility in Global Latinx Media Cultures.” Feminist Media Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2022.2056755
  • Baud, Michiel, and Annelou Ypeij. Cultural Tourism in Latin America. 1st ed. Vol. 96. Leiden: BRILL, 2009. CEDLA Latin America Studies. Web. Chapter 2.
  • Bonet, Natalia García. (2019) 3 The Indian Within: Negotiating Indigenous Identity among Dominant Images of Indigeneity in Venezuela. Bulletin of Latin American Research 38.1: 57-75.
  • Bonfil Batalla, Guillermo. (2021) Mexico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization, New York, USA: University of Texas Press. 
  • Canessa, Andrew. (2012) Intimate Citizens and Sex and the Citizen in Intimate Indigeneities, Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Cant, Alanna. (2019) The Value of Aesthetics: Oaxacan Artisans in Global Economies of Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press. 
  • Conklin, Beth. (1997) “Body paint, feathers, and VCRs: Aesthetics and authenticity in Amazonian activism”. American Ethnologist 24.4 711-737.
  • Desiree Poets. (2021) “Settler colonialism and/in (urban) Brazil: black and indigenous resistances to the logic of elimination.” Settler Colonial Studies. 11:3, 271-291.
  • Escobar, Arturo. (2020) Pluriversal politics: the real and the possible. Durham: Duke University Press. Chapters 2 and 4, pp. 31-45; 67-83. 
  • Escobar, A., & Alvarez, S.E. (Eds.). (1992). The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy, and Democracy (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi-org.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/10.4324/9780429496301
  • Fernandes, Sujatha. (2010) Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Introduction and Chapter 5, pp. 1-36; 160-211. 
  • Fine-Dare, K. (2019). Urban Mountain Beings: History, Indigeneity, and Geographies of Time in Quito, Ecuador. Lexington Books. Chapter 2: The “Urban Question”, pp. 47–78.
  • Fuentes, Marcela. (2019) Performance constellations: networks of protest and activism in Latin America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 
  • Hale, Charles R. (2004) “Rethinking Indigenous Politics in the Era of the “Indio Permitido”. NACLA” Report on the Americas 38.2:16-20. 
  • Horn, Philipp. (2018) “Indigenous peoples, the city and inclusive urban development policies in Latin America: Lessons from Bolivia and Ecuador.” Developmet Policy Review. 36.4: 483– 501. https://doi-org.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/10.1111/dpr.12234
  • Helland, J. (1990-1991). Aztec imagery in Frida Kahlo's paintings: Indigeneity and political commitment. Woman's Art Journal 11(2): 8-13.
  • Huarcaya, Sergio Miguel. (2015) Performativity, Performance, and Indigenous Activism in Ecuador and the Andes. Comparative Studies in Society and History 57.3: 806-837.
  • La Cadena, Marisol De. (1995) “Women Are More Indian: Gender and Ethnicity in Cuzco” In Larson Brooke, Harris Olivia, and Tandeter Enrique , eds. Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes:At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology. Duke University Press
  • La Cadena, Marisol De. (2001) “Reconstructing race: Racism, culture and mestizaje in Latin America” NACLA Report on the Americas 34.6: 16-23. 2. 
  • Langer, Erik. and Muñoz, Elena. (2003) Contemporary Indigenous Movements. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 
  • Marks, Diana (2016), ‘Parallelism and Meaning: Understanding Molas as Twinned Pairs’, Journal of Material Culture, 21(3), pp. 317–342. 
  • McNelly, Angus. (2022) “Baroque Modernity in Latin America: Situating Indigeneity, Urban Indigeneity and the Popular Economy” Bulletin of Latin American Research, 41(1): 6-20 
  • Muñoz V. Angélica. (2021) Constelaciones. Arte contemporáneo indígena desde América, Event report. Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational. https://www.tate.org.uk/research/research-centres/hyundai-tate-research-centre-transnational/event-report-constelaciones
  • Osorio Sunnucks, Laura Ann, et al., eds. (2025). Mesoamerican Narratives at the British Museum: Ancient Writing, Contemporary Voices. De Gruyter.
  • Pitman, Thea (2021). “Indigenous Art and Its Curation in Contemporary Brazil.” In Decolonising the Museum: The Curation of Indigenous Contemporary Art in Brazil, pp. 13–24. Boydell & Brewer.
  • Postero, Nancy. (2017) Wedding the Nation, in The Indigenous State: Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 
  • Radcliffe, Sarah. (2017) “Geography and indigeneity I: Indigeneity, coloniality and knowledge.¨ Progress in Human Geography 41(2), pp. 220–229.
  • Radcliffe, Sarah. (2014). “Gendered Frontiers of land control: Indigenous Territory, Women, and Contests over Land in Ecuador”. Gender, Place, and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 21(7) (2014): 854-871 
  • Roitman, Karem, and Alexis Oviedo. (2017) "Mestizo racism in Ecuador." Ethnic and racial studies 40.15: 2768-2786.
  • Sá, Lúcia, and Felipe Milanez Pereira (2020). “Painting Racism: Protest Art by Contemporary Indigenous Artists.” In Sara Brandellero, Derek Pardue and Georg Wink, eds., Living (Il)legalities in Brazil: Practices, Narratives and Institutions in a Country on the Edge, pp. 160–178. Routledge.
  • Serafini, Paula (2022). Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism. Vanderbilt University Press.
  • Szok, Peter (2025). Insurgent Beauty: Indigenous Art in Urban Panama. University Press of Mississippi.
  • Soto Gutiérrez, Laura (2026). “Imágenes de lo propio: mediaciones, disputas y representación indígena en la pintura de Tigua.” Arte y Políticas de Identidad.
  • Sutherland, Camilla. (2022) “Indigenismo and the Limits of Cultural Appropiation”, Angelaki, 27:3-4, 75-90, DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2022.2093949
  • Sutton, Barbara. (2010) Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina. Piscataway: Rutgers University Press. 
  • Terena, Naine, and Jamille Pinheiro Dias (2026). “Indigenous Arts and Anti-Racism in Brazil: Perspectives from the Véxoa: We Know Exhibition.” In Peter Wade, Lúcia Sá and Ignacio Aguiló, eds., Art and Anti-Racism in Latin America, pp. 172–197. Cambridge University Press.
  • Taylor, Diana. (2020) ¡Presente!: the politics of presence. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Vivaldi, A. (2019) “Indigeneidades urbanas: formaciones espacializadas de raza y experiencia Toba (Qom) en Buenos Aires.” Quid, 16(11), pp. 151-174.
  • Wood, Elisabeth Jean (2003) Insurgent collective action and civil war in El Salvador. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 
  • Zibechi, Raúl. (2012) Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements. Oakland, CA: AK Press.