The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia by Larson, Brooke
The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia by Larson, Brooke

The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia

Bringing into dialogue the fields of social history, Andean ethnography, and postcolonial theory, The Lettered Indian maps...
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The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia by Larson, Brooke

The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia

$95.62
The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia by Larson, Brooke

The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia

$95.62
Author: Brooke Larson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Bringing into dialogue the fields of social history, Andean ethnography, and postcolonial theory, The Lettered Indian maps the moral dilemmas and political stakes involved in the protracted struggle over Indian literacy and schooling in the Bolivian Andes. Brooke Larson traces Bolivia's major state efforts to educate its unruly Indigenous masses at key junctures in the twentieth century. While much scholarship has focused on "the Indian boarding school" and other Western schemes of racial assimilation, Larson interweaves state-centered and imperial episodes of Indigenous education reform with vivid ethnographies of Aymara peasant protagonists and their extraordinary pro-school initiatives. Exploring the field of vernacular literacy practices and peasant political activism, she examines 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. From the metaphorical threshold of the rural school, Larson rethinks the politics of race and indigeneity, nation and empire, in postcolonial Bolivia and beyond.

Author: Brooke Larson
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 01/12/2024
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9781478025467

About the Author
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.
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