Suchergebnisse

Llanthu ritual : experience of cosmic order -- Praying for government : campesino disengagement from the Bolivian state -- Mining troubles : perceptions of the state in flux -- Kumbre reciprocity : ritual allure of landlords -- Anti-nation : local symptoms of the politics of indigeneity -- Land : history of landlord resolve -- Beyond indigeneity and land : shifting domains of landlord authority -- Cultural models : deference revisited

Bolivia is a multicultural country located in the heart of South America. Neighbouring countries include Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Paraguay and Chile. It is a large nation, with an area of nearly 1 100 000 km(2), although most of its territory was lost in wars. A particularly damaging loss was the sea coast, which was lost to Chile in the late 1800s. According to the constitution, Sucre is the capital city but La Paz is the seat of government and is often referred to as the capital.

As the Bolivian government adopts increasingly conservative and authoritarian features, a policy meant to boost capitalist extractivism is becoming increasingly evident. This should be understood not as the end of a "progressive" government but as the consolidation of a new structure of state power sustained by an anticommunal stance that has involved a redefinition of the government's alliance with the ruling classes and the systematic dismantling of the social forces that are now struggling to reappropriate political prerogatives in arenas of political organization unrelated to the state.A medida que el gobierno boliviano adopta características cada vez más conservadoras y autoritarias, se ha hecho cada vez más evidente una política destinada a impulsar el extractivismo capitalista. Esto no debe entenderse como el fin de un gobierno "progresista", sino como la consolidación de una nueva estructura de poder estatal sostenida en una postura anticomunitaria que implica una redefinición de la alianza entre el gobierno y las clases dominantes, así como el desmantelamiento sistemático de las fuerzas sociales que ahora luchan por la reapropiación de prerrogativas políticas desde ámbitos no estatales de organización política.