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El Alto, rebel city : self and citizenship in Andean Bolivia / Sian Lazar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lazar, Sian.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Latin America otherwise.
- Latin America otherwise
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aymara Indians--Bolivia--El Alto--Social conditions.
- Aymara Indians.
- Aymara Indians--Bolivia--El Alto--Politics and government.
- State-local relations--Bolivia--El Alto.
- State-local relations.
- El Alto (Bolivia)--Social conditions.
- El Alto (Bolivia).
- El Alto (Bolivia)--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- El Alto, Rebel City combines ethnography and political theory to explore the astonishing political power exercised by the indigenous citizens of El Alto, Bolivia in the past decade.
- Contents:
- El Alto the city
- Constructing the zone
- Citizens despite the state
- Place, movement, and ritual
- How the gods touch humans (and vice versa)
- Competition, individualism, and collective organization
- "In-betweenness" and political agency
- The state and the unions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-309) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822388760
- 0822388766
- OCLC:
- 191855691
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