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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, Very good+ condition. The Journal of Latin American Anthropology (now renamed The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology) published a highly influential special issue titled "Indigenous Peoples and New Urbanisms" in Volume 11, Number 2 (November 2006). Edited by anthropologist David M. Guss, this specific volume systematically deconstructs the long-held colonial myth that indigenous identities are strictly rural, pastoral, or archaic. Instead, it explores how indigenous populations navigate, reconstruct, and assert their political and cultural identities within dynamic, modern urban environments. It been signed and bares an ex libris sticker, from Olivia Harris, "Anthropologist, Champion of Bolivian Indigenous Peoples". Born in 1948, Professor Olivia Harris spent years conducting groundbreaking ethnographic fieldwork among the Aymara-speaking Laymi communities in northern Potosí, Bolivia. The late Olivia Harris was one of the world's foremost British social anthropologists specializing in the indigenous peoples of highland Bolivia. Signed.…