New Languages of the State
Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia
1st Edition
Published on 10. July 2009
352 pages
978-0-8223-9117-3 (ISBN)
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Analyzes bilingual intercultural education in Bolivia to show how indigenous-backed proposals to reform the all-Spanish education system to include indigenous languages and knowledges challenged neoliberal models of education and became part of the transf
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Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia
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Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia
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Bret Gustafson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Content
About the Series ix
Acknowledgments xi
Acronyms xv
On Languages and Labels xix
Introduction. Ethnographic Articulations in the Age of Pachakuti 1
Part 1. Resurgent Knowledge
1. Soldiers, Priests, and Schools: State Building in the Andes and the Guarani Frontier 33
Interlude. To Camiri 61
2. Guarani Scribes: Bilingual Education as Indigenous Resurgence 65
Interlude. To Itavera 95
3. Guarani Katui: Schooling, Knowledge, and Movement in Itavera 101
Part 2. Transnational Articulations
Interlude. To La Paz, via Thailand 135
4. Networking Articulations: EIB from Project to Policy 143
Interlude. Bolivia or Yugoslavia 171
5. Prodding Nerves: Intercultural Disruption and Managerial Control 175
Part 3. Return to Struggle
Interlude. La Indiada, como para Dar Miedo 209
6. Insurgent Citizenship: Interculturalism beyond the School 215
Interlude. Interculturalism to Decolonization 247
7. Shifting States 253
Notes 285
Glossary 301
References 303
Index 319
Acknowledgments xi
Acronyms xv
On Languages and Labels xix
Introduction. Ethnographic Articulations in the Age of Pachakuti 1
Part 1. Resurgent Knowledge
1. Soldiers, Priests, and Schools: State Building in the Andes and the Guarani Frontier 33
Interlude. To Camiri 61
2. Guarani Scribes: Bilingual Education as Indigenous Resurgence 65
Interlude. To Itavera 95
3. Guarani Katui: Schooling, Knowledge, and Movement in Itavera 101
Part 2. Transnational Articulations
Interlude. To La Paz, via Thailand 135
4. Networking Articulations: EIB from Project to Policy 143
Interlude. Bolivia or Yugoslavia 171
5. Prodding Nerves: Intercultural Disruption and Managerial Control 175
Part 3. Return to Struggle
Interlude. La Indiada, como para Dar Miedo 209
6. Insurgent Citizenship: Interculturalism beyond the School 215
Interlude. Interculturalism to Decolonization 247
7. Shifting States 253
Notes 285
Glossary 301
References 303
Index 319
