Joanne Rappaport is Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University. She is the author of The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes, also published by Duke University Press, and Cumbe Reborn: An Andean Ethnography of History.

“Joanne Rappaport takes engaged anthropology a whole step further in this brilliant experimental ethnography. Through intercultural dialogues involving new generations of Nasa intellectuals and their nonindigenous collaborators in Colombia, we witness creative tactics to decolonize knowledge and produce novel hybrid political culture. Intercultural Utopias offers a rigorous, indigenously inflected analytical approach to issues such as indigenous politics, autonomy, and conflict ‘inside the inside’ of highly fluid arenas of indigenous activism.”-Kay Warren, author of Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala “This book is a major intervention in discussions of interculturalism among scholars and activists committed to indigenous movements. Joanne Rappaport’s theoretical and methodological innovation and politically engaged practice model the transformative power of horizontal conversation between and among intellectuals from distinct linguistic and cultural traditions.”-Florencia E. Mallon, author of Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of NicolÁs AilÍo and the Chilean State, 1906–2001 “Intercultural Utopias is extremely useful for thinking comparatively about indigenous movements, particularly the sections on bilingual education, the role of the national left, implementation of customary law, and dealings with transnational religious authorities.” - Diane Nelson (Journal of Anthropological Research) “In this path-breaking book, Rappaport describes and analyzes the work of ‘intellectuals’ that have during recent decades informed and shaped the indigenous movement in the province of Cauca (Colombia). . . . One of the book’s major insights is its challenge to the idea that Colombia’s indigenous movement is monolithic, with a homogenous set of actors.” - Esteban Rozo (Comparative Studies in Society and History)

• About the Series ixAcknowledgments xiA Note on the Orthography of Nasa Yuwe xviiAbbreviations for Colombian Organizations xixIntroduction 11. Frontier Nasa / Nasa de Frontera : The Dilemma of the Indigenous Intellectual 232. Colaboradores: The Predicament of Pluralism in an Intercultural Movement 553. Risking Dialogue: Anthropological Collaborations with Nasa Intellectuals 834. Interculturalism and Lo propio: CRIC’s Teachers as Local Intellectuals 1155. Second Sight: Nasa and Guambiano Theory 1526. The Battle for the Legacy of Father UlcuÉ: Spirituality in the Struggle between Region and Locality 1857. Imagining a Pluralist Nation: Intellectuals and Indigenous Special Jurisdiction 227Epilogue 262Glossary 277Notes 281Works Cited 299Index 325

Joanne Rappaport is Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University. She is the author of The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes, also published by Duke University Press, and Cumbe Reborn: An Andean Ethnography of History.

“Joanne Rappaport takes engaged anthropology a whole step further in this brilliant experimental ethnography. Through intercultural dialogues involving new generations of Nasa intellectuals and their nonindigenous collaborators in Colombia, we witness creative tactics to decolonize knowledge and produce novel hybrid political culture. Intercultural Utopias offers a rigorous, indigenously inflected analytical approach to issues such as indigenous politics, autonomy, and conflict ‘inside the inside’ of highly fluid arenas of indigenous activism.”-Kay Warren, author of Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala “This book is a major intervention in discussions of interculturalism among scholars and activists committed to indigenous movements. Joanne Rappaport’s theoretical and methodological innovation and politically engaged practice model the transformative power of horizontal conversation between and among intellectuals from distinct linguistic and cultural traditions.”-Florencia E. Mallon, author of Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of NicolÁs AilÍo and the Chilean State, 1906–2001 “Intercultural Utopias is extremely useful for thinking comparatively about indigenous movements, particularly the sections on bilingual education, the role of the national left, implementation of customary law, and dealings with transnational religious authorities.” - Diane Nelson (Journal of Anthropological Research) “In this path-breaking book, Rappaport describes and analyzes the work of ‘intellectuals’ that have during recent decades informed and shaped the indigenous movement in the province of Cauca (Colombia). . . . One of the book’s major insights is its challenge to the idea that Colombia’s indigenous movement is monolithic, with a homogenous set of actors.” - Esteban Rozo (Comparative Studies in Society and History)

• About the Series ixAcknowledgments xiA Note on the Orthography of Nasa Yuwe xviiAbbreviations for Colombian Organizations xixIntroduction 11. Frontier Nasa / Nasa de Frontera : The Dilemma of the Indigenous Intellectual 232. Colaboradores: The Predicament of Pluralism in an Intercultural Movement 553. Risking Dialogue: Anthropological Collaborations with Nasa Intellectuals 834. Interculturalism and Lo propio: CRIC’s Teachers as Local Intellectuals 1155. Second Sight: Nasa and Guambiano Theory 1526. The Battle for the Legacy of Father UlcuÉ: Spirituality in the Struggle between Region and Locality 1857. Imagining a Pluralist Nation: Intellectuals and Indigenous Special Jurisdiction 227Epilogue 262Glossary 277Notes 281Works Cited 299Index 325

Joanne Rappaport is Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University. She is the author of The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes, also published by Duke University Press, and Cumbe Reborn: An Andean Ethnography of History.

“Joanne Rappaport takes engaged anthropology a whole step further in this brilliant experimental ethnography. Through intercultural dialogues involving new generations of Nasa intellectuals and their nonindigenous collaborators in Colombia, we witness creative tactics to decolonize knowledge and produce novel hybrid political culture. Intercultural Utopias offers a rigorous, indigenously inflected analytical approach to issues such as indigenous politics, autonomy, and conflict ‘inside the inside’ of highly fluid arenas of indigenous activism.”-Kay Warren, author of Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala “This book is a major intervention in discussions of interculturalism among scholars and activists committed to indigenous movements. Joanne Rappaport’s theoretical and methodological innovation and politically engaged practice model the transformative power of horizontal conversation between and among intellectuals from distinct linguistic and cultural traditions.”-Florencia E. Mallon, author of Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Community of NicolÁs AilÍo and the Chilean State, 1906–2001 “Intercultural Utopias is extremely useful for thinking comparatively about indigenous movements, particularly the sections on bilingual education, the role of the national left, implementation of customary law, and dealings with transnational religious authorities.” - Diane Nelson (Journal of Anthropological Research) “In this path-breaking book, Rappaport describes and analyzes the work of ‘intellectuals’ that have during recent decades informed and shaped the indigenous movement in the province of Cauca (Colombia). . . . One of the book’s major insights is its challenge to the idea that Colombia’s indigenous movement is monolithic, with a homogenous set of actors.” - Esteban Rozo (Comparative Studies in Society and History)

• About the Series ixAcknowledgments xiA Note on the Orthography of Nasa Yuwe xviiAbbreviations for Colombian Organizations xixIntroduction 11. Frontier Nasa / Nasa de Frontera : The Dilemma of the Indigenous Intellectual 232. Colaboradores: The Predicament of Pluralism in an Intercultural Movement 553. Risking Dialogue: Anthropological Collaborations with Nasa Intellectuals 834. Interculturalism and Lo propio: CRIC’s Teachers as Local Intellectuals 1155. Second Sight: Nasa and Guambiano Theory 1526. The Battle for the Legacy of Father UlcuÉ: Spirituality in the Struggle between Region and Locality 1857. Imagining a Pluralist Nation: Intellectuals and Indigenous Special Jurisdiction 227Epilogue 262Glossary 277Notes 281Works Cited 299Index 325