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Deference revisited : Andean ritual in the plurinational state / Into A. Goudsmit.
Author
Goudsmit, Into A.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2016]
Description
xxi, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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F3320.1.G6 G68 2016
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Subject(s)
Indigenous peoples of South America
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Bolivia
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Toracari
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Government relations
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Indigenous peoples of South America
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Bolivia
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Toracari
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Social life and customs
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Peasants
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Bolivia
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Toracari
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Government relations
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Peasants
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Bolivia
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Toracari
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Social life and customs
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Landlords
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Bolivia
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Toracari
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Land tenure
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Bolivia
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Toracari
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Indigenous Studies
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Series
Carolina Academic Press ritual studies monographs
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Carolina Academic Press Ritual studies monograph series
Summary note
"Indigenous politics reverberates around the globe, impacting international and national agendas. Bolivia is at the forefront of implementing state reforms that promote indigenous autonomy and identity while agitating against the alleged accomplices of neoliberalism. Into Goudsmit draws on years of in-depth ethnographic research in the Andean valley of Toracari, providing unique insight into the local impact of these reforms that, in August 2012, led to the nationalisation of the Canadian junior mining company South American Silver. The local politics of indigeneity and the conflicts caused by the mining concessions are analysed, concluding that the experiences in Toracari rebuff ubiquitous claims of structural social transformation. The findings invite an exploration of the cultural dynamics of continuity instead, shifting attention to the most significant sites of cultural production in Toracari: rituals. Within rituals, the indian population generates cultural models that mould local deference to the state and landlords. This is ironic as the Bolivian government has adopted indigenous rituals as the language of the ‘re-founded’ state. This ethnography, then, sheds a distinctively Andean light on the debate — ranging from symbolic to cognitive anthropology —regarding the effectiveness of social practices such as rituals that persuade practitioners to live a proper life in line with durable cultural models, reproducing reciprocal but asymmetrical relations in the process."-- Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-308) and index.
Contents
Llanthu ritual : experience of cosmic order
Praying for government : campesino disengagement from the Bolivian state
Mining troubles : perceptions of the state in flux
Kumbre reciprocity : ritual allure of landlords
Anti-nation : local symptoms of the politics of indigeneity
Land : history of landlord resolve
Beyond indigeneity and land : shifting domains of landlord authority
Cultural models : deference revisited.
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ISBN
9781611638417 ((alk. paper))
1611638410 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2015048078
OCLC
939909042
Other standard number
40026238192
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