Intimate Indigeneities
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Intimate Indigeneities

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

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Intimate Indigeneities

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

About this book

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, racial, and linguistic identities; and informed by a historical consciousness. Addressing how whiteness and indianness are reproduced as hegemonic structures in the village, how masculinities develop as men go to the mines and army, and how memories of a violent past are used to construct a present sense of community, Canessa raises important questions about indigenous politics and the very nature of indigenous identity.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. About the Series
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. One: A Wila Kjarka Kaleidoscope
  6. Two: Intimate Histories
  7. Three: The Jankho Kjarka War
  8. Four: From Fetuses to Mountain Ancestors
  9. Five: Fantasies of Fear
  10. Six: Progress Is a Metal Flagpole
  11. Seven: Intimate Citizens
  12. Eight: Sex and the Citizen
  13. Postscript: We Will Be People No More
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index