Ciao!

not to sound completely like the pinche gringo on this one, but isn't two weeks a long time to spend on indigenous movements in [what i assume is] an undergraduate course?

I'd imagine the last week would be taken up by an hour of talking about "where does Latam politics go from here?" and an hour of telegraphing what will be on the final exam...

also, if you're looking for magazine articles for supplementary reading, i can make several recommendations...

Yes, two weeks may seem a bit long. But it's not just about indigenous movements, but also how it relates to democratization, globalization, etc. The Langer book I really like because it fits indigenous movements into the larger "social movements" or "civil society" literature, so it's not entirely "anthropological" or something like that. So it fits into our course on democratization in Latin America. I see indigenous movements as both a product of--and challenge to--democratization.

The Langer book is also critical of the role of NGOs & international actors in indigenous movements--particularly when they fetishize indigenous people's "exoticism" (he refers to the old "noble savage" mythos) to further their own agendas. So I like that it's not an "activist" book on the subject.

And last time I taught my Latin American politics course (at WMU), I spent two weeks on urban politics in Latin America as the special "theme" portion of the course. So I wanted to do something else (but not populism or parties, since I'm teaching a whole course just on that in the Spring).

I would go with the Yashar book. She sets up her theoretical framework in a concise way, sticks with it throughout, and it actually reads surprisingly well. Any undergrad poli-sci major would not only learn a lot about recent Latin American political developments, but it would also be a good tool to help them learn how to organize and present their ideas in writing.