Autonomy and Power : : The Dynamics of Class and Culture in Rural Bolivia / / Maria L. Lagos.

Maria L. Lagos supplies a fine-grained ethnographic and historical analysis of the intersecting dynamics of class and culture in Tiraque, a province in the highlands of Cochabamba, Bolivia.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1994
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:The Ethnohistory Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. An Introduction to Tiraque
  • 2. The Emergence of a Merchant Class and Landowning Peasants
  • 3. Revolution, Agrarian Reform, and the State
  • 4. Production, Sharecropping, and Class
  • 5. The Accumulation of Wealth and Capital
  • 6. The Culture of Power and Politics
  • Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Autonomy, Power, and Culture
  • Appendix: Bolivian Exchange Rates, 1982–85
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index
  • Backmatter