Natives Making Nation: Gender, Indigeneity, and the State in the Andes

Book Overview

In Bolivia today, the ability to speak an indigenous language is highly valued among educated urbanites as a useful job skill, but a rural person who speaks a native language is branded with lower social status. Likewise, chewing coca in the countryside spells "inferior indian," but in La Paz jazz bars it's decidedly cool. In the Andes and elsewhere, the commodification of indianness has impacted urban lifestyles as people co-opt indigenous cultures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816530130
• ISBN13: 9780816530137
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"