Jean E. Jackson, prominent scholar of Indigenous peoples and multicultural politics in Colombia, has written an intellectual autobiography, Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia, that places her work and reflections within the context of the anthropology of Indigenous groups in lowland South America over her fifty-year career. Jackson traces the literature and her own changing perspective on the place of anthropological research and political action in a volatile and complex historical moment. She sets out to define some of the thorny issues that face anthropologists working with Indigenous peoples in Latin America, where state-sponsored multiculturalism, newly established in a number of countries in the 1990s, has elicited scholarship and activism that challenge notions of authenticity, indigeneity, and collective rights. Jackson takes this opportunity to address questions that continue to bedevil anthropologists, human rights advocates, and Indigenous rights activists. In this fascinating personal professional journey, Jackson...