Intimate Indigeneities Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life

Name: Intimate Indigeneities Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life
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ISBN: 9780822352679

ISBN-10: 0822352672

ISBN-13: 9780822352679

Edition: 2012

Authors: Andrew Canessa

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Based on extended ethnographic fieldwork conducted over the course of more than two decades,Intimate Indigeneitiesexplores the multiple identities of a community of people in the Bolivian highlands through their own lived experiences and their own voices. Andrew Canessa examines how gender, race, and ethnic identities manifest themselves in everyday interactions in an Aymara village. Canessa illustrates that indigeneity is highly contingent and thoroughly imbricated with gendered, racial, and linguistic identities as well as informed by an historical consciousness. Addressing how whiteness and Indianness are reproduced as hegemonic structures in the village, how masculinities develop as men…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

ANDREW CANESSA is Director of the Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Essex and the author of Pocobaya: GÃ©nero e identidad en una aldea andina.



About the Series


Acknowledgments


Introduction



A Wila Kjarka Kaleidoscope



Intimate Histories



The Jankho Kjarka War



From Fetuses to Mountain Ancestors



Fantasies of Fear



Progress Is a Metal Flagpole



Intimate Citizens



Sex and the Citizen


Postscript - We Will Be People No More


Notes


References


Index