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Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia´s Indigenous Intellectuals
Waskar Ari
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Description for Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia´s Indigenous Intellectuals
Paperback. 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. Series: Narrating Native Histories. Num Pages: 280 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
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 the AMP emphasized the idea of the earth and the place of Indians on it, and because of the political meaning that the ... Read more
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 the AMP emphasized the idea of the earth and the place of Indians on it, and because of the political meaning that the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Series
Narrating Native Histories
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822356172
SKU
V9780822356172
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About Waskar Ari
Waskar Ari is Assistant Professor of History and Ethnic Studies/Latin American Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Reviews for Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia´s Indigenous Intellectuals
"A good summary of the Bolivian AMP for all Latin American social science researchers. . . . Highly recommended. All levels and libraries."
D. L. Browman
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"This is really a treasure, a lens into the lives, visions, and political practices of the forebears of the contemporary movement that is changing Bolivia."
Nancy Postero & Devin ... Read more
D. L. Browman
Choice
"This is really a treasure, a lens into the lives, visions, and political practices of the forebears of the contemporary movement that is changing Bolivia."
Nancy Postero & Devin ... Read more