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Drawing on prolonged ethnographic examine performed over the process greater than twenty years, Andrew Canessa explores the a number of identities of a neighborhood of individuals within the Bolivian highlands via their very own lived reports and voices. He examines how gender, race, and ethnic identities occur themselves in daily interactions within the Aymara village. Canessa exhibits that indigeneity is extremely contingent; completely imbricated with gendered, racial, and linguistic identities; and trained via a ancient realization. Addressing how whiteness and indianness are reproduced as hegemonic buildings within the village, how masculinities increase as males visit the mines and military, and the way stories of a violent earlier are used to build a gift experience of neighborhood, Canessa increases very important questions on indigenous politics and the very nature of indigenous identity.

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