The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia

by Brooke Larson

Bringing into dialogue the fields of social history, Andean ethnography, and postcolonial theory, The Lettered Indian maps the moral dilemmas and political stakes involved in the protracted struggle over Indian literacy and schooling in the Bolivian Andes. Brooke Larson traces Bolivia's major state efforts to educate its unruly Indigenous masses at key junctures in the twentieth century. While much scholarship has focused on "the Indian boarding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478020652
• ISBN13: 9781478020653
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"