Emergence in Re-emergent Indians: Para-history of The Re-Emergent Rankülche Indigenous People

Abstract

In this article I explore some blind points, lacunae and crevices that interrupt the sociohistorical process of the so-called reemergence of the Rankülche Indigenous People. I contend that this task can only be done by adopting a fetishistic and phantomatic perspective which can acknowledge zones of emergence in social action, historical process and identity. The evidence for this argument is provided by a parahistory, a kind of phenomenology of the workings of fetishes and ghosts through the materiality of things such as map textures, hidden obvious images, and loose words that are left over by “reemergent human agency.” In this search for a critical chord to the politics of multicultural recognition different from the one based on a standard constructionist approach, I relate the “stranger realities than newer data” discovered to the idea of the politics that can be elicitedfrom the very derogative accusation of “indio politico” to Rankülche activists.