The Lettered Indian
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The Lettered Indian

Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia

  1. 496 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Lettered Indian

Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia

About this book

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 school" and other Western schemes of racial assimilation, Larson interweaves state-centered and imperial episodes of Indigenous education reform with vivid ethnographies of Aymara peasant protagonists and their extraordinary pro-school initiatives. Exploring the field of vernacular literacy practices and peasant political activism, she examines the transformation of the rural "alphabet school" from an instrument of the civilizing state into a tool of Aymara cultural power, collective representation, and rebel activism. From the metaphorical threshold of the rural school, Larson rethinks the politics of race and indigeneity, nation and empire, in postcolonial Bolivia and beyond.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. To Civilize the Indian: Contested Pedagogies of Race and Nation
  6. 2. Lettered Aymara: The Insurgent Politics of Literacy and Schooling
  7. 3. Warisata: Forging an Intercultural School Experiment
  8. 4. Whose Indian School?: Revenge of the Oligarchy
  9. 5. Instigators of New Ideas: Peasant Pedagogies of Praxis
  10. 6. Enclaves of Acculturation: The North American School Crusade
  11. 7. The Hour of Vindication: Rural Literacy and Schooling in the Age of Revolution
  12. Epilogue: Silences, Remembrances, and Reckonings
  13. Acknowledgments
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index