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Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Bolivian Andes : Ritual Practice and Activism
Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Bolivian Andes : Ritual Practice and Activism
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Author(s): Burman, Anders
ISBN No.: 9781498538503
Pages: 389
Year: 201812
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 69.53
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (On Demand)

Candidly and with respect to those that may think that 'tradition' is timeless, this book experiences Aymara politics as re-membering. I think of this word as a conceptual practice, proposed by young Aymara intellectuals-politicians as a de-colonial practice of the self with which to bring to awareness that which denies their possibilities of exceeding the practices imposed by modernity, while at the same time using that which modernity offers to, precisely, emerge against the denial. The book is an ethnographically brilliant and carefully composed work in which Burman does not study the yatiris; he learns with them other ways of knowing and he thereby transforms 'participant observation' into experience and proposes a novel notion of methods; not a practice of collecting data, but a practice of knowing through fieldwork.


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