Along the Bolivian Highway : : Social Mobility and Political Culture in a New Middle Class /

Along the Bolivian Highway : : Social Mobility and Political Culture in a New Middle Class / / Miriam Shakow.

Along the Bolivian Highway traces the emergence of a new middle class in Bolivia, a society commonly portrayed as the site of struggle between a superwealthy white minority and a destitute indigenous majority. Miriam Shakow shows how Bolivian middle classes have deeply shaped politics and social lif...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Package 2014-2015
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Shakow, Miriam,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Contemporary Ethnography
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 8 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on Language
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Formation of a New Middle Class
  • Chapter 2. The Intimate Politics of New Middle Classes in Sacaba
  • Chapter 3. Middling Sacabans Respond to Evo and MAS
  • Chapter 4. Condemning Clientelism
  • Chapter 5. Laments of Betrayal
  • Chapter 6. Middle Classes and Debates over the Definition of Community
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Family Tree of Doña Saturnina Ramírez
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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