During his last 40 years as anthropologist, Prof. Varese has followed, accompanied and witnessed the ethnopolitical struggle of the indigenous peoples of Latin America for their self-determination, autonomy and cultural sovereignty. He is now revisiting these years of political struggle and professional engagement in an attempt to reach some conclusions on the role of committed Latin American anthropology in the hemispheric indigenous movement for social, economic and cultural justice.
Stefano Varese is a professor in the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis. He has done research in the Amazon region of Peru, in Southeast México, among the indigenous diaspora in California and at a continental level. He has completed and submitted to the University of Oklahoma Press a manuscript on these topics titled: “Witness to Sovereignty.”
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