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Earth politics : religion, decolonization, and Bolivia's indigenous intellectuals / Waskar Ari.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ari Chachaki, Waskar.
- Series:
- Narrating native histories.
- Narrating native histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alcaldes Mayores Particulares (Bolivia).
- Indians of South America--Bolivia--Politics and government.
- Indians of South America.
- Nationalism--Bolivia--History--20th century.
- Nationalism.
- Bolivia--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Bolivia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Earth Politics focuses on the lives of four indigenous activist-intellectuals in Bolivia, key leaders in the Alcaldes Mayores Particulares (AMP), a movement established to claim rights for indigenous education and reclaim indigenous lands from hacienda owners. The AMP leaders invented a discourse of decolonization, rooted in part in native religion, and used it to counter structures of internal colonialism, including the existing racial systems. Waskar Ari calls their social movement, practices, and discourse ""Earth Politics,"" both because of the political meaning that the
- Contents:
- Building the Indian law and a decolonization project in Bolivia
- Nation-state making and the genealogy of the AMP indigenous activists
- The beginning of the decolonization project : Toribio Miranda's framing and dissemination of the Indian law
- Against cholification : Gregorio Titiriku's urban experience and development of earth politics in times of segregation
- Between internal colonialism and war : Melitón Gallardo in the southern Andean estates
- Against whitening : Andrés Jacha'qullu's movement between worlds in the era of the Bolivian national revolution of 1952
- The AMP's innovations and its legacy in Bolivia under Evo Morales.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822376958
- 0822376954
- OCLC:
- 1141742927
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