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<p>Numerous studies have focused on how states, bureaucracies, and social movements make race. Less explored, however, are the intrastate bureaucratic jurisdictional struggles to determine the official ethnoracial categorization of populations. Drawing on 19 interviews with government officials and Indigenous leaders as well as a content analysis of regulation and news, I examine the implementation of the Law of Prior Consultation in Peru. This law is unique because it establishes “objective” and “subjective” criteria that allow the state to determine who should be considered Indigenous in Peru. I show that official indigeneity arises from competition between government agencies. Officials from these agencies seek to demonstrate who has the stewardship to define who should be considered Indigenous by interpreting and reinterpreting the law’s criteria. My research also highlights the dynamics of resistance/accommodation between Indigenous organizations and official indigeneity.</p>

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Who Should be Considered Indigenous? Intrastate Bureaucratic Jurisdictional Struggles Over Indigeneity in Peru

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    2025年3月15日

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  • Alonso Burgos Cisneros

摘要

Numerous studies have focused on how states, bureaucracies, and social movements make race. Less explored, however, are the intrastate bureaucratic jurisdictional struggles to determine the official ethnoracial categorization of populations. Drawing on 19 interviews with government officials and Indigenous leaders as well as a content analysis of regulation and news, I examine the implementation of the Law of Prior Consultation in Peru. This law is unique because it establishes “objective” and “subjective” criteria that allow the state to determine who should be considered Indigenous in Peru. I show that official indigeneity arises from competition between government agencies. Officials from these agencies seek to demonstrate who has the stewardship to define who should be considered Indigenous by interpreting and reinterpreting the law’s criteria. My research also highlights the dynamics of resistance/accommodation between Indigenous organizations and official indigeneity.