Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Bolivian Andes - Ritual Practice and Activism

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."

List of contents

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

About the author

Anders Burman is professor of Intellectual history at Södertörn University.
One of his main areas of research is the tradition of Hegelian Marxism. He
has written, edited or co-edited almost thirty books, among them the monograph
Flykten från Hegel ("The Flight from Hegel") and the anthologies Att
läsa Hegel ("To Read Hegel") and Tysk idealism ("German Idealism").

Product details

• Authors: Anders Burman, Burman Anders
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781498538503
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3850-3
• No. of pages: 389
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, 21st Century, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Political activism, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Social and cultural anthropology, Bolivia, History of the Americas, Elections & referenda, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, Elections and referenda / suffrage, Political activism / Political engagement