Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia's Indigenous Intellectuals

by Waskar Ari

Book Overview

Earth Politics focuses on the lives of four indigenous activist-intellectuals in Bolivia, key leaders in the Alcaldes Mayores Particulares (AMP), a movement established to claim rights for indigenous education and reclaim indigenous lands from hacienda owners. The AMP leaders invented a discourse of decolonization, rooted in part in native religion, and used it to counter structures of internal colonialism, including the existing racial systems. Waskar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822356171
• ISBN13: 9780822356172
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"