Bolivia and the Making of the Global Indigenous Movement; Anthropology, Development and Transnationalism by Juanita Roca-Sánchez ISBN 9781040129760, 1040129765 instant download

Bolivia and the Making of the Global Indigenous Movement; Anthropology, Development and Transnationalism by Juanita Roca-Sánchez ISBN 9781040129760, 1040129765 instant download

This book investigates how Western anthropological trends, development discourse and transnational activism came to create and define the global indigenous movement. Using Bolivia as a case study, the author demonstrates through historical and ethnographic research, how international ideas of what it means and does not mean to be indigenous have played out at the national level, under different global paradigms of race and ethnicity. Tracing these trends from early twentieth century pre-revolutionary Bolivia, revolutionary nationalism, Inter-American indigenismo in the 1940s and Latin American multiculturalism, up to Evo Morales’s downfall, the book reflects on Bolivia’s national-level policy discourse and constitutional changes, and also asks to what extent these principles were transmitted to the country’s grassroots organisations and movements such as Indianismo, Katarismo, CSUTCB and CIDOB. Overall, the book argues that indigeneity can only be adequately understood as a longue durée anthropological, political and legal construction, crafted within broader geopolitical contexts. Within this scope, the classical dichotomy between ‘indigenous’ and ‘whites’ should be challenged, in favour of a more nuanced understanding of plural indigeneities. This book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of global studies, political anthropology, political science, international relations, ethnic politics, Latin America–United States relations, post-development, history of anthropology, transnational social networks, international development history, socio-legal studies, Latin American and Bolivian history, and indigenous studies.