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Contested Community
Indigenous Land Rights and Identity Politics in Eastern Bolivia
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This fine-grained ethnography follows a group of formerly captive Guaraní as they make a new indigenous "community" in the Bolivian Chaco. Groke traces the many constructed meanings of the term ‘community,’ showing how it takes form through a mix of histories, memories, myths, and discourses, as well as the lived experiences of kinship and reciprocal sociality. In a masterful examination of politics at multiple scales, Groke shows how the Guaraní negotiate development agencies’ aims to "develop" them and regional elites’ efforts to coop them, in the process maintaining Guaraní notions of freedom and mobility.
» Nancy Postero, University of California, San Diego
Veronika Groke interrogates the concept of the comunidad indigena (indigenous community) and the role it plays within contemporary Bolivian discourse by examining its relation to the history and social life of a Guarani community in Bolivia. Les mer
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Veronika Groke interrogates the concept of the comunidad indigena (indigenous community) and the role it plays within contemporary Bolivian discourse by examining its relation to the history and social life of a Guarani community in Bolivia. While this concept is firmly embedded in contemporary discourse, different people and interest groups have varying understandings of its meaning and purpose. By showing the comunidad (community) to be a multifaceted complex of diverging and sometimes competing ideas, desires, and agendas, Grokes provides new insight into the actions and motivations of the various vested interest groups and highlights the political tensions related to culture, identity, and development.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Lexington Books
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781793613738
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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This fine-grained ethnography follows a group of formerly captive Guaraní as they make a new indigenous "community" in the Bolivian Chaco. Groke traces the many constructed meanings of the term ‘community,’ showing how it takes form through a mix of histories, memories, myths, and discourses, as well as the lived experiences of kinship and reciprocal sociality. In a masterful examination of politics at multiple scales, Groke shows how the Guaraní negotiate development agencies’ aims to "develop" them and regional elites’ efforts to coop them, in the process maintaining Guaraní notions of freedom and mobility.
» Nancy Postero, University of California, San Diego
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