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Indigenous agency in the Amazon : the Mojos in liberal and rubber-boom Bolivia, 1842-1932 / Gary Van Valen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Valen, Gary.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mojo Indians--Bolivia--Beni--History.
- Mojo Indians.
- Rubber industry and trade--Social aspects--Bolivia--Beni.
- Rubber industry and trade.
- Millennialism--Bolivia--Beni--History.
- Millennialism.
- Agent (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The largest group of indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon, the Mojos, has coexisted with non-Natives since the late 1600s, when they accepted Jesuit missionaries into their homeland, converted to Catholicism, and adapted their traditional lifestyle to the conventions of mission life.
- Contents:
- The Llanos de Mojos
- Liberalism comes to the Llanos
- A country vulcanized
- The ventriloquist messiah
- The citizen cacique
- Trinidad and San Ignacio.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8165-9978-5
- 1-299-19216-5
- OCLC:
- 828768714
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