General Editor's Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: GENERAL THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- Notes on Las Casas' Ideological and Political Practice -- Alternatives to Ethnocide: Human Zoos, Living Museums, and Real People -- The Right of the Third World to Develop in Its Own Way and Remarks on the Idea of "Change" -- SECTION TWO: THE COLONIAL PAST IN SPANISH AMERICA -- The Gridiron Plan and the Caste System in Colonial Central America -- The Persistence of the Baroque in Peru and Mexico -- Ecuador: The Indigenous Tribute System as a Mechanism of Exploitation During the Colonial Period and the First Years of Independence -- Danish Colonialism in the West Indies: A Case of Transculturation Failure -- SECTION THREE: THE LATIN AMERICAN PRESENT -- Agrarian Reform in Chile and Its Impact on Araucanian Indian Communities -- Jungle Quechua Ethnicity: An Ecuadorian Case Study -- Jívaro Head Hunters in a Headless Time -- The Fiesta of the Indian in Quibdó, Colombia -- Crosses and Souls -- Chinantec Messianism: The Mediator of the Divine -- The Role of Peasant Organizations in the Struggle Against Multinational Corporations: The Cuban Case -- The Cultural Dependency of Rural Communities and Peasant Guerrillas in Latin America -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.