New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia Hardcover - 2009
by Bret Gustafson
From the rear cover
"A beautifully crafted, magnificently expansive, and inspiring work of engaged historical ethnography! Bret Gustafson traces Bolivia's heralded experiment in bilingual education by planting it deep in the subsoil of Guarani culture and politics and by projecting it against the larger canvass of neoliberal reformism in the 1990s. In plotting the choreography of state, NGO, and grassroots struggles over indigenous knowledge and schooling, Gustafson opens up new horizons on Bolivia's vibrant Guarani movement and its radicalizing agendas in the early 2000s. This is, quite simply, the work of a seasoned anthropologist and gifted writer."--Brooke Larson, author of "Trials of Nation Making. Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910"
Details
- Title New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia
- Author Bret Gustafson
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Duke University Press
- Date 2009-07
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780822345299 / 0822345293
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Library of Congress subjects Ethnology - Bolivia, Education, Bilingual - Bolivia
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009005701
- Dewey Decimal Code 370.117
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Citations
- Chronicle of Higher Education, 09/25/2009, Page 19