Autonomy and Power : the Dynamics of Class and Culture in Rural Bolivia /

Maria L. Lagos supplies a fine-grained ethnographic and historical analysis of the intersecting dynamics of class and culture in Tiraque, a province in the highlands of Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Lagos, Maria L.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press [2016]
Collection:The Ethnohistory Series
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv512zgg
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. An Introduction to Tiraque
  • 2. The Emergence of a Merchant Class and Landowning Peasants
  • 3. Revolution, Agrarian Reform, and the State
  • 4. Production, Sharecropping, and Class
  • 5. The Accumulation of Wealth and Capital
  • 6. The Culture of Power and Politics
  • Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Autonomy, Power, and Culture
  • Appendix: Bolivian Exchange Rates, 1982-85
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index
  • Backmatter