The Indigenous State
：Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia
Publication subTitle ：Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia
Author： Postero Nancy
Publisher： University Of California Press
Publication year： 2017
E-ISBN: 9780520967304
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520294035
Subject： C912.4 cultural anthropology, social anthropology
Keyword： 文化人类学、社会人类学
Language： ENG
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In 2005, Bolivians elected their first indigenous president, Evo Morales. Ushering in a new “democratic cultural revolution,” Morales promised to overturn neoliberalism and inaugurate a new decolonized society. In this perceptive new book, Nancy Postero examines the successes and failures that have followed in the ten years since Morales’s election. While the Morales government has made many changes that have benefited Bolivia’s majority indigenous population, it has also consolidated power and reinforced extractivist development models. In the process, indigeneity has been transformed from a site of emancipatory politics to a site of liberal nation-state building. By carefully tracing the political origins and practices of decolonization among activists, government administrators, and ordinary citizens, Postero makes an important contribution to our understanding of the m
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