Ethnic Territorialities, Frontiers, and Mediated Inclusions: Comparative Interdisciplinary Approaches, I + II

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

[We are hoping to get two consecutive roundtable spaces].
Based on recent new research, panelists will address how and when territories often occupied by indigenous peoples for centuries became part of imperial networks beginning in the sixteenth century to then be partially or wholly incorporated into nation-states in the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Part of the discussion will focus on the different meanings of "ethnic territoriality" and how it was understood by the participating historical agents, the kinds of discussions that ensued, and the cumulative results of words and actions. Our panelists will address these questions in a varied set of contexts, both temporal and spatially, with concentrations on Amazonia, Brazil, Mexico, and the Andes. How did markets and merchants transform boundaries, what influence did fiscal and military/police interventions have, how did local disputes forge borders and borderlines, what was the influence of cultural perceptions, migration patterns and demographic development in delineating borders? Equally important: which were the mechanisms of resistance, mediation, and open conflict that help explain the shaping of national borders and the persistence of ethnic territories?

Sub Track

• History and Historiography

Session Organizer

• Christine Hunefeldt, University of California/San Diego

Chair

• Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill

Discussant

• Stefano Varese, University of California/Davis

Presenters

• Hal L Langfur, State University of New York/Buffalo

• Marta Martín Gabaldón, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social

• Izabel Missagia De Mattos

• Danna A Levin Rojo, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco

• João Pacheco de Oliveira Filho, Museu Nacional-UFRJ

• Antonio Escobar Ohmstede, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS)

• Yanna P Yannakakis, Emory University