Larson The Lettered Indian

Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2756-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 496 Seiten

Brooke Larson traces the struggle over Indigenous education in Bolivia in the twentieth century, examining the transformation of the rural “alphabet school” from an instrument of the civilizing state into a tool of Aymara cultural power, collective representation, and rebel activism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Larson, Brooke

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface xi
Introduction 1
1. To Civilize the Indian: Contested Pedagogies of Race and Nation 23
2. Lettered Aymara: The Insurgent Politics of Literacy and Schooling 70
3. Warisata: Forging an Intercultural School Experiment 110
4. Whose Indian School? Revenge of the Oligarchy 160
5. Instigators of New Ideas: Peasant Pedagogies of Praxis 192
6. Enclaves of Acculturation: The North American School Crusade 229
7. The Hour of Vindication: Rural Literacy and Schooling in the Age of Revolution 269
Epilogue. Silences, Remembrances, and Reckonings 315
Acknowledgments 339
Notes 345
Bibliography 423
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brooke Larson is Professor Emerita of History at Stony Brook University; author of Cochabamba, 1550-1900: Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia, also published by Duke University Press, and Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810–1910; and coeditor of Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology.