ANTH 320/DEVS 321 PEOPLE AND DEVELOPMENT Fall 2017
Assignment #3 on Indigeneity and development

If you attend the Global Issues Forum (Tuesday October 3, 3:45-5 in Dennis Hall), answer this question with specific reference to comments made by other participants.

If you cannot attend the Global Issues Forum, answer this question with specific reference to material in the articles by MacNeish and Schilling-Vacaflor.

     What are the dangers of FPIC being coopted into serving stereotypes about indigenous communities, or becoming a tool to manipulate such communities?

Submit a 200-250 word response in class on Wednesday October 11, 2017.


MacNeish, John-Andrew (2013) Extraction, Protest and Indigeneity in Bolivia: The TIPNIS Effect.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. 8(2): 221–242.

Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut. (2017) Who controls the territory and the resources? Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) as a contested human rights practice in Bolivia. Third World Quarterly. 38(5):1058–1074.