Natives making nation : gender, indigeneity, and the state in the Andes

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Natives making nation : gender, indigeneity, and the state in the Andes / edited by Andrew Canessa.

Canessa, Andrew, 1965- (Added Author).

Summary:

"This volume looks at how metropolitan ideas of nation employed by politicians, the media, and education are produced, reproduced, and contested by people of the rural Andes - people who have long been regarded as ethnically and racially distinct from more culturally European urban citizens. Yet these peripheral "natives" are shown to be actively engaged with the idea of the nation in their own communities, forcing us to re-think the ways in which indigeneity is defined by its marginality." "The contributors examine the ways in which numerous identities - racial, generational, ethnic, regional, national, gender, and sexual - are both mutually informing and contradictory among subaltern Andean people who are more likely now to claim an allegiance to a nation than ever before."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0816524696
ISBN: 9780816524693
ISBN: 9780816530137
ISBN: 0816530130
Physical Description: 201 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Introduction: Making the nation on the margins / Andrew Canessa -- Capturing Indian bodies, hearths, and minds : the gendered politics of rural school reform in Bolivia, 1920s-1940s / Brooke Larson -- Making music safe for the nation : folklore pioneers in Bolivian indigenism / Michelle Bigenho -- The choreography of territory, agency, and cultural survival in the Vicuña hunting ritual "chuqila" / Marcia Stephenson -- Dancing on the borderlands : girls (re)fashioning national belonging in the Andes / Krista Van Vleet -- The Indian within, the Indian without : citizenship, race, and sex in a Bolivian hamlet / Andrew Canessa -- From political prison to tourist village : tourism, gender, indigeneity, and the state on Taquile Island, Peru / Elayne Zorn -- Afterword: Andean identities : multiplicities, socialities, materialities / Mary Weismantel.