Download or read book Indigenous Modernities in South America written by Ernst Halbmayer and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary indigenous peoples are modern societies, shaped by their ways of dealing with and transforming contexts imposed by nation-states, colonial systems and globalization. Case studies from South America on shamanism and Christianity, traditional clothing, as well as indigenous cosmologies, technology and welfare, explore these processes.