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040			_cNew Zealand National Baha'i Reference Library
245	1	0	_aEarth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia’s Indigenous Intellectuals
260			_aDurham and London _bDuke University Press _c2014
300			_a262 p.
500			_aEarth Politics focuses on the lives of four indigenous activist-intellectuals in Bolivia, key leaders in the Alcaldes Mayores Particulares (AMP), a movement established to claim rights for indigenous education and reclaim indigenous lands from hacienda owners. The AMP leaders invented a discourse of decolonization, rooted in part in native religion, and used it to counter structures of internal colonialism, including the existing racial systems. Waskar Ari calls their social movement, practices, and discourse earth politics, both because the AMP emphasized the idea of the earth and the place of Indians on it, and because of the political meaning that the AMP gave to the worship of the Aymara gods. Depicting the social worlds and life work of the activists, Ari traverses Bolivia's political and social landscape from the 1920s into the early 1970s. He reveals the AMP 's extensive geographic reach, genuine grassroots quality, and vibrant regional diversity. Ari had access to the private archives of indigenous families, and he collected oral histories, speaking with men and women who knew the AMP leaders. The resulting examination of Bolivian indigenous activism is one of unparalleled nuance and depth.
504			_aAndrés Jachakollo Ticona (November 10, 1921 - November 16, 1994) was the first indigenous Bolivian to become a Bahá’í. He served on the National Spiritual Assembly of Bolivia and as an Auxiliary Board member.
505			_aAcknowledgments ix 1. Building the Indian Law and a Decolonization Project in Bolivia 1 2. Nation Making and the Genealogy of the AMP Indigenous Activists 31 3. The Beginning of the Decolonization Project: Toribio Miranda's Framing and Dissemination of the Indian Law 55 4. Against Cholification: Gregorio Titiriku's Urban Experience and the Development of Earth Politics in Segregated Times 81 5. Between Internal Colonialism and War: Melitón Gallardo in the Southern Andean Estates 115 6. Against Whitening: Andrés Jacha'qullu's Movement between Worlds in the Era of the Bolivian National Revolution of 1952 135 Conclusion. The AMP's Innovations and Its Legacy in Bolivia under Evo Morales 171 Appendix 1 189 Appendix 2 193 Notes 199 Glossary 227 Selected Bibiolography 233 Index 251
600		0	_91342 _aAndrés Jacha'qullu
650		0	_aIndians of South America _vPolitics and government _zBolivia _91345
651		0	_aBolivia _vBaha'i Faith _91960
700			_aAri Waskar _91343
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