Suchergebnisse

Along the Inca Frontier -- The Emergence of a Market Economy -- Declining State Power and the Struggle over Labor -- Andean Village Society -- Haciendas and the Rival Peasant Economy -- The Landowning Class : Hard Times and Windfall Profits -- The Spirit and Limits of Enterprise -- The Ebb Tide of Colonial Rule -- Colonial Legacies and Class Formation -- Cochabamba: (Re)constructing a History.

As both a focus and locus of vibrant scholarly work, the field of Bolivian studies burst onto the international scene, carving a distinctive niche for itself within the larger fields of Andean and Latin American studies over the past twenty-five years. Bolivia went from being the hemisphere's "least studied" country, according to a 1984LASA Forumsurvey, to becoming a beacon of intercultural dialogue, vanguard scholarship, and postcolonial debate. This essay traces Bolivian studies' coming of age. Plotting the field's developments and dialogues across history, anthropology, and ethnohistory, it argues that a dual process of academic decentering and epistemic reinvention unfolded in Bolivia at the height of its indigenous and popular mobilizations during the 1990s and early 2000s. The article closes by identifying five thematic clusters of recent research and briefly reflects on the place of Bolivian scholarship in the wider purview of Andean studies.

Seit etwa zehn Jahren hat sich die Beschäftigung US-amerikanischer Wissenschaftler mit Bolivien wieder verstärkt. Während jedoch in den 50er und 60er Jahren der Schwerpunkt auf kleinräumlichen ethnographischen Untersuchungen und allgemein gehaltenen Darstellungen der Revolution und ihrer Folgen lag, stehen jetzt sozial- und wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Abhandlungen im Vordergrund, die für den Bereich der Landwirtschaft und des Bergbaus die Mechanismen des Übergangs zu kapitalistischer Produktionsweise untersuchen

A recent diagnosis of the health of Latin American studies in the United States reveals that Bolivia is among the forgotten or ignored countries. U.S. scholarship on Mexico, Brazil, and Peru vastly outranks research on Bolivia. Following the Bolivian Revolution of 1952, U.S. universities turned out a host of dissertations and books on Bolivia, but since that time, the U.S. community of Bolivianists has declined. Yet anthropological and historical research on this southern Andean country seems to be flourishing. Although some political scientists attracted to problems and prospects for reform created by the Revolution have turned their attention elsewhere, Bolivia still fascinates scholars interested in the deeper currents of historical change and the remarkable resilience of rural Andean peoples in their struggle to preserve their cultural integrity.

Premiers elements d'un bilan de la recherche en sciences sociales faites aux USA depuis les annees 1960