Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Bolivian Andes

Ritual Practice and Activism

Anders Burman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

389 Seiten

2018
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3850-3 (ISBN)

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This book explores how Evo Morales’s victory in the 2005 Bolivian presidential elections led to indigeneity as the core of decolonization politics. Burman analyzes how indigenous Aymara ritual specialists are essential in representing this indigeneity in official state ceremony and in legitimizing the president as “the indigenous president.”

Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Bolivian Andes: Ritual Practice and Activism explores how Evo Morales’s victory in the 2005 Bolivian presidential elections led to indigeneity as the core of decolonization politics. Anders Burman analyzes how indigenous Aymara ritual specialists are essential in representing this indigeneity in official state ceremony and in legitimizing the president’s role as “the indigenous president.” This book goes behind the scenes of state-sponsored multiculturalist ritual practices and explores the political, spiritual and existential dimensions underpinning them.

Anders Burman is associate professor at the Human Ecology Division at Lund University.

Contents
Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Los aymaras
Chapter 2: Colonialism and Decolonization: Experience and Narrative

Part I: The Illness (Ay. Usu)

Chapter 3: Strange Patria

Chapter 4: Strange Being

Chapter 5: Strange World

Part II: The Cure (Ay. Qulla)

Chapter 6: Native Being

Chapter 7: Native World

Chapter 8: Native Patria
Conclusions

Word list

Bibliography

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 229 mm
Gewicht	422 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4985-3850-9 / 1498538509
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-3850-3 / 9781498538503
Zustand	Neuware