Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life

by Andrew Canessa

Drawing on extended ethnographic research conducted over the course of more than two decades, Andrew Canessa explores the multiple identities of a community of people in the Bolivian highlands through their own lived experiences and voices. He examines how gender, race, and ethnic identities manifest themselves in everyday interactions in the Aymara village. Canessa shows that indigeneity is highly contingent; thoroughly imbricated with gendered,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822352672
• ISBN13: 9780822352679
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"