Brooke Larson

The Lettered Indian

Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Brooke Larson traces the struggle over Indigenous education in Bolivia in the twentieth century, examining the transformation of the rural “alphabet school” from an instrument of the civilizing state into a tool of Aymara cultural power, collective representation, and rebel activism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781478020653
• ISBN-10: 1478020652
• Artikelnr.: 67743658

Autorenporträt

Brooke Larson

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  xi
Introduction  1
1. To Civilize the Indian: Contested Pedagogies of Race and Nation  23
2. Lettered Aymara: The Insurgent Politics of Literacy and Schooling  70
3. Warisata: Forging an Intercultural School Experiment  110
4. Whose Indian School? Revenge of the Oligarchy  160
5. Instigators of New Ideas: Peasant Pedagogies of Praxis  192
6. Enclaves of Acculturation: The North American School Crusade  229
7. The Hour of Vindication: Rural Literacy and Schooling in the Age of
Revolution  269
Epilogue. Silences, Remembrances, and Reckonings  315
Acknowledgments  339
Notes  345
Bibliography  423
Index