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Author Calderón, Alessandra Pellegrini, author.

Title Beyond Indigeneity : Coca Growing and the Emergence of a New Middle Class in Bolivia
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2016-11-22 00:00:00.0

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Contents List of Illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; A Note on Names ; Introduction ; 1. Histories of Migration and Struggle ; 2. People and Coca Fields ; 3. Supplying Coca for a Nation ; 4. What Has a Long History Is the Land ; 5. Indigenous Morality and the Immoral Economy
Conclusion Abbreviations ; Notes ; Glossary ; References ; Index
Summary This manuscript is a new foray into indigenous identity social mobility within Latin American social anthropology. Evo Morales' presidency in Bolivia has led to a strong publicity of coca issues and to an intensification of indigeneity discourses, which fits into the global trend of people increasingly self-identifying as indigenous. This manuscript asks about how those who cultivate the traditional coca leaves in Bolivia position themselves vis-à-vis the discourses of indigeneity. It crystallizes that coca growers are highly reluctant to embrace the politics of indigeneity by rejecting the "indigenous peoples' slot", while at the same time they are emerging as a new middle class and break with the traditional model of social mobility in Latin America. They stay in-between ethnic categories, but also in-between social classes. By this, ethnic identification and prosperity become arranged in a new, unusual way, and make new forms of political positioning thinkable"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Coca industry -- Social aspects -- Bolivia -- Yungas
Social mobility -- Bolivia -- Yungas
Middle class -- Bolivia -- Yungas
Indigenous peoples -- Bolivia -- Yungas
Coca industry -- Social aspects
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples -- Economic conditions
Middle class
Social mobility
Bolivia -- Yungas
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0816535906
9780816535903