Intimate Indigeneities : Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life Paperback / softback
by Andrew Canessa
Part of the Narrating Native Histories series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:344 pages, 52 illustrations, 2 figures
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:26/11/2012
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- ISBN:9780822352679
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:344 pages, 52 illustrations, 2 figures
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:26/11/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822352679
