New languages of the state : indigenous resurgence and the politics of knowledge in Bolivia / Bret Gustafson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gustafson, Bret Darin, 1968-

Series:

Narrating native histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Bilingual--Bolivia.

Education, Bilingual.

Indigenous peoples.

Social conditions.

Guarani Indians--Education.

Guarani Indians.

Indigenous peoples--Education.

Bolivia.

Indigenous peoples--Education--Bolivia.

Guarani Indians--Education--Bolivia.

Education--Social aspects--Bolivia.

Education.

Education--Social aspects.

Ethnology--Bolivia.

Ethnology.

Indigenous peoples--Bolivia--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xx, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Indigenous resurgence and the politics of knowledge in Bolivia

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, [2009]

Summary:

"During the mid-1990s, a bilingual intercultural education initiative was launched to promote the introduction of indigenous languages alongside Spanish in public elementary schools in Bolivia's indigenous regions. Bret Gustafson spent fourteen years studying and working in south-eastern Bolivia with the Guarani, who were at the vanguard of the movement for bilingual education. Drawing on his collaborative work with indigenous organizations and bilingual-education activists as well as more traditional ethnographic research, Gustafson traces two decades of indigenous resurgence and education politics in Bolivia, from the 1980s and through the election of Evo Morales in 2005. Gustafson shows that bilingual education is about more than what goes on in classrooms. Public schools are at the centre of a broader battle over territory, power, and knowledge as indigenous movements across Latin America actively defend their languages and knowledge systems." -- Book cover.

Contents:

Ethnographic articulations in an age of Pachakuti

Soldiers, priests, and schools: state building in the Andes and the Guarani frontier

Interlude: to Camiri

Guarani scribes: bilingual education as indigenous resurgence

Interlude: to Itavera

Guarani Katui: schooling, knowledge, and movement in Itavera

Interlude: to la Paz, via Thailand

Network articulations: EIB from project to policy

Interlude: Bolivia or Yugoslavia?

Prodding nerves: intercultural disruption and managerial control

Interlude: la Indiada, como para dar miedo

Insurgent citizenship: interculturalism beyond the school

Interlude: interculturalism to decolonization

Shifting states.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-318) and index.

ISBN:

9780822345299

0822345293

9780822345466

0822345463

OCLC:

306802831