“Etno Intelligentsia”: Construction of "Lettered Subjects" in Latin America, 1980-2010 [“Etnointelectualidad”: Construcción de “Sujetos Letrados” en América Latina, 1980-2010]

This paper studies the processes of historical social construction of “indigenous intellectuals”, one of the most important and complex stages for ethnic movements in Latin America: redemocratization, the opening of markets and high participation of the grassroots mobilization processes. Thus, this proposition develops a two-point analysis: firstly, the definition and selfdefinition which is made by an indigenous intellectual and, on the other hand, the problems facing this etnointellectual in a scientific and Western semantic framework. © 2014, Universidad de los Lagos. All rights reserved.