E D Langer
Biographic Data
| ID | 2556 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E D Langer |
| GIVEN NAMES | E D |
| FAMILY NAME | Langer |
| SIGNATURE | LANGER E D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9739-942X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
La Chiriguanía en el Museo Nacional de Antropología y Etnología de Florencia: Para una historia de la colección de objetos de cultura material chiriguana
Indigenous Groups in the Heart of South America
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The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia
The title of this book summarizes so well what Brooke Larson, who has researched for decades the topic of education among the Aymara people, has found. The author shows that the Aymara over the twentieth century continuously tried to gain access to education, whether they were hacienda peons, Indigenous community members, or urban dwellers. The main focus of the Aymara, who constitute the vast majority of the rural and urban populations of northe…
New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy by Brian P. Owensby
The Jesuit missions among the Guaraní Indians in Paraguay (1640s to 1767) have attracted attention for many centuries. At their peak in the early eighteenth century, the missions, numbering thirty at the time, encompassed around 140,000 people. They appeared to be virtually autonomous in their government, relying mostly on an internal economy only partially connected to the colonial economy. Owensby contributes to the study of these missions by p…
Comunidades guaraníes y terratenientes karai: La lucha por la autonomía en la frontera central chiriguana en el siglo XIX
Ante el avance del Estado boliviano y los colonos en la frontera sudoriental durante el siglo XIX, los chiriguanos se resguardaron en misiones, fueron absorbidos por las haciendas, emigraron a Argentina o mantuvieron su autonomía. Este artículo examina las diversas vías por las que las comunidades chiriguanas pudieron conservar sus tierras: aliándose con funcionarios locales, contratando abogados para defender sus reivindicaciones o forjando alia…
Don't Cry: The Enlhet History of the Chaco War
Bolivia and Paraguay fought the Chaco War (1932–35) in a frontier region that neither state fully controlled. The history of this region's multiethnic Indigenous population is a vital part of the war's story that has gained focus only in the early twenty-first century. Don't Cry is a vital contribution to this history, overturning much of what scholars thought they knew. The book does this through the testimony of the Enlhet peoples, whose ancest…
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen. Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present
The eastern lowlands of Bolivia, almost in the center of the South American continent, appear to be one of the most isolated places in the world, far from foreign influences. Ben Nobbs-Thiessen’s Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present shows us this is not at all the case. The author delineates a world of transnational penetration in the second half of the twentieth century tha…
Desarrollo Económico Y Contrabando De Plata en El Siglo Xix (Andes Centromeridionales)
Este ensayo argumenta que el contrabando, especialmente de la plata, fue un factor decisivo en el desarrollo económico de los Andes meridionales en el siglo XIX. Enfocando en la información dejada por el contrabandista más grande de la región, Gregorio Pacheco (entonces un comerciante y posteriormente presidente de Bolivia), se puede entrever los hilos de las actividades económicas que fomentaba el contrabando de la plata. Llevó a un tipo de desa…
Transfer, Begegnung, Skandalon: Neue Perspektiven auf die Jesuitenmissionen in Spanisch-Amerika, edited by Esther Schmid Heer, Nikolaus Klein, and Paul Oberholzer
Diplomacy and Trade: The Current Contradictory Relations between the United States and Bolivia
Diplomatic relations between Bolivia and the United States have been difficult since Evo Morales became president in 2006. Despite these poor relations and even despite the abrogation of the ATPDEA (Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act) in 2008, commerce between Bolivia and the United States has increased more than during governments allied with the United States. These conclusions show that the state of diplomatic relations are not ne…
The Tupac Amaru Rebellion
Much has been written about the Túpac Amaru rebellion, which shook the Andes from 1780–1783. It was the largest indigenous-led anti-colonial rebellion in the Spanish Empire had ever seen and involved tens of thousands of combatants, affecting millions throughout the region. Charles Walker contributes to this scholarship by providing the most up-to-date and detailed narrative rendering of the rebellion and its aftermath. The outline of the rebelli…
People of the Water: Change and Continuity among the Uru-Chipayans of Bolivia
The Uru-Chipayans are a small population of Chipaya speakers on the Bolivian altiplano in southern Oruro; they comprise a small island in a sea of Aymara peasants. Joseph Bastien presents us with a comprehensive ethnography of this often poorly understood minority group, based on many decades of research. He delineates the process of cultural change in Santa Ana de Chipaya, the focus of his research, from 1986 onward. The greatest value of his bo…
Bolivia's Radical Tradition: Permanent Revolution in the Andes
Book Review| December 01 2011 Bolivia's Radical Tradition: Permanent Revolution in the Andes Bolivia's Radical Tradition: Permanent Revolution in the AndesJohn, S. Sándor Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009xiii + 317 pp., $55.00 (cloth) Erick D. Langer Erick D. Langer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2011) 8 (4): 155–157. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1377033 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & ta…
The Franciscan Missionary Enterprise in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
This essay is in large part inspired by Fr. Antonine Tibesar OFM, whom I had the privilege to meet in 1982 just after I returned from my doctoral research sojourn in Bolivia. Fr. Antonine was for many years the director of the Academy of Franciscan History when that institution had its beautiful campus in Potomac, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. I had corresponded with Fr. Antonine earlier and during my visit enjoyed discussing with him th…
Aftershocks: Earthquakes and Popular Politics in Latin America - edited by Buchenau, Jürgen and Johnson, Lyman L
Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree: Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830–1949
Missions played a vital role in frontier development in Latin America throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They were key to the penetration of national societies into the regions and indigenous lands that the nascent republics claimed as their jurisdictions. In Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree, Erick D. Langer examines one of the most important Catholic mission systems in republican-era Latin America, the Franciscan missions among t…
Bringing the Economic Back In: Andean Indians and the Construction of the Nation-State in Nineteenth-Century Bolivia
Using the example of nineteenth-century Bolivia, this article argues that economic motivations need to be taken into account in understanding the role of peasants in constructing Latin American nation-states, especially in the Andes. Based on local archives, it considers the case of the altiplano region of Oruro-Poopó. From this perspective, during the half-century that followed independence, Andean communities were mostly in favour of a free-tra…
People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru
Book Review| April 01 2009 People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru Noble David Cook with Alexandra Parma Cook. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xv + 319 pp., preface, map, photographs, bibliography, index. $23.95 paper.) Erick D. Langer Erick D. Langer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 353–354. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-085 Cite Icon Cite Shar…
The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America, vol. 1, The Colonial Era and the Short Nineteenth Century
The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America (CEHLA) represents a major and very welcome effort to summarize what scholars know about Latin American economic history from its pre-Columbian beginnings to the present. The editors received the collaboration of some of the best economic historians, who wrote lengthy essays in their respective fields. The project includes scholars from Europe, the United States, and Latin America in a judicious mix…
Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco
Landscapes of Devils is a beautiful evocation of the history of Argentina’s western Toba people (also known as the Toba-Pilagá) from the late nineteenth century to the present. The author shows how the harsh climate of the Chaco Boreal, at the center of the South American continent, intertwined with memories of places and events among the Tobas, who prior to their defeat by the Argentine army in the early twentieth century were one of the most fe…
Diccionario histórico de Bolivia
The Diccionario histórico de Bolivia (DHB) is a major effort and one of the most complete historical dictionaries I have encountered. It spans the period from prehistory to 2001, with articles written by many of the most important Bolivianists alive. It covers not only historical events and people but also major books on Bolivian history published in Spanish (including important novels) and many newspapers in publication for five years or more, a…
Florida's Frontiers
Book Review| October 01 2007 Florida's Frontiers Florida's Frontiers. By Paul E. Hoffman. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xvi + 470 pp., foreword, preface, introduction, maps, notes, index. $45.00 cloth.) Erick D. Langer Erick D. Langer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (4): 778–779. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-040 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Si…
La participación indígena en la construcción de la república de Guatemala, S. XIX
This very interesting and provocative book has a somewhat misleading title. Although the content is all about the political participation of Indian communities in Guatemala, Indians themselves rarely appear. Rather, the book primarily reflects the debates of liberal and conservative elites over the communities’ participation. Alda Mejías’s principal argument is that indigenous communities did participate in the political construction of the natio…
Prólogo
La obra de Isabelle Combés, titulada Etno-historias del Isoso: Chané y chiriguanos en el Chaco boliviano (siglos xvi a xx), forma parte de una larga trayectoria intelectual de compromiso con los indígenas de la zona chaqueña. Isabelle Combés, procedente de Francia, se encontró con Bolivia por primera vez en 1988 cuando llegó a trabajar como investigadora auspiciada por el Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos para investigar sobre la historia de …
Indian Trade and Ethnic Economies in the Andes, 1780-1880
The image of indigenous populations of Latin America is one of marginalization and poverty. This image is largely accurate from the early twentieth century onward. Historians and other social scientists have assumed that, at least since independence, Indians were politically and economically disadvantaged. The political side of this equation has enjoyed in recent years a burgeoning literature, as historians of the Andes have been inspired by Bene…
Circuitos comerciales tradicionales y cambio económico en los Andes Centromeridionales (1830-1930)
Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians
Bringing the Economic Back In: Andean Indians and the Construction of the Nation-State in Nineteenth-Century Bolivia
Using the example of nineteenth-century Bolivia, this article argues that economic motivations need to be taken into account in understanding the role of peasants in constructing Latin American nation-states, especially in the Andes. Based on local archives, it considers the case of the altiplano region of Oruro-Poopó. From this perspective, during the half-century that followed independence, Andean communities were mostly in favour of a free-tra…
The Eastern Andean Frontier (Bolivia and Argentina) and Latin American Frontiers: Comparative Contexts (19th and 20th Centuries)
The epic struggles between Mexicans and the Apaches and Comanches in the far northern reaches of the Spanish empire and the conflict between gauchos and Araucanians in the pampas in the far south are the images the mind conjures up when thinking of Latin American frontiers. We must now add for the twentieth century the dense Amazon jungle as one of the last frontiers in popular (and scholarly) minds. However, these images ignore the eastern Andea…
Labor Strikes and Reciprocity on Chuquisaca Haciendas
IN past few years historians have begun to question image of docile and compliant hacienda peon over whom landowner had near absolute control. As study of Latin American hacienda has advanced, it has become clear that there often was an active give-and-take, in which landowner did not always have upper hand. This was especially evident during lateV nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when a boom in exports and consolidation of national econ…
Colonial and Republican Missions Compared: The Cases of Alta California and Southeastern Bolivia
In Latin America missions have traditionally played a large role in conquering and incorporating native populations into dominant society. Most studies of the missionary enterprise have focused on the colonial period, when the missions reached their high point. The Jesuit missions in Paraguay and the Franciscan missions of central and northern Mexico, for example, ruled over vast territories and thousands of Indians. Although these institutions a…
Franciscan Missions and Chiriguano Workers: Colonization, Acculturation and Indian Labor in Southeastern Bolivia
An earlier version of this essay was presented at the Symposium “Bolivia: Formation and Development of a Labor Force, 1600 to the Present,” organized by Ann Zulawski and Lesley Gill for the 45th International Congress of Americanists, Bogotá, Colombia, 1985. The author wishes to thank Robert H. Jackson, Brooke Larson, and Nils Jacobsen for their comments on the paper. Research funds were provided by the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-…
The Barriers to Proletarianization: Bolivian Mine Labour, 1826–1918
Labour history in Latin America has, to a great degree, followed the models set by the rich historiography in Europe and North America. Other than a justifiable concern with the peculiarities in production for export of primary goods, much of the Latin American historiography suggests that the process of labour formation was rather similar to that of the North Atlantic economies, only lagging behind, as did industrialization in this region of the…
Andean Rituals of Revolt: The Chayanta Rebellion of 1927
Through the analysis of two rituals that occurred during the 19z7 Indian rebellion in southern Bolivia, it is possible to discern the motivations and worldviews of the Andean peasantry. One ritual, in which the rebels imitated a trial to legitimate their takeover of a number of estates, shows how they were linked to other Indian allies; it also illustrates their efforts to maintain ties with the national government. The second ritual, an act of c…
The Franciscan Missionary Enterprise in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
This essay is in large part inspired by Fr. Antonine Tibesar OFM, whom I had the privilege to meet in 1982 just after I returned from my doctoral research sojourn in Bolivia. Fr. Antonine was for many years the director of the Academy of Franciscan History when that institution had its beautiful campus in Potomac, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. I had corresponded with Fr. Antonine earlier and during my visit enjoyed discussing with him th…
Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree: Franciscan Missions on the Chiriguano Frontier in the Heart of South America, 1830–1949
Missions played a vital role in frontier development in Latin America throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They were key to the penetration of national societies into the regions and indigenous lands that the nascent republics claimed as their jurisdictions. In Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree, Erick D. Langer examines one of the most important Catholic mission systems in republican-era Latin America, the Franciscan missions among t…
The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America, vol. 1, The Colonial Era and the Short Nineteenth Century
The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America (CEHLA) represents a major and very welcome effort to summarize what scholars know about Latin American economic history from its pre-Columbian beginnings to the present. The editors received the collaboration of some of the best economic historians, who wrote lengthy essays in their respective fields. The project includes scholars from Europe, the United States, and Latin America in a judicious mix…
Introduction: Placing Latin America in World History
What role does Latin America play in the field of world history? This is an important question to ask as we move into an ever-more-globalized world. In the past two decades, world history courses have proliferated in many U.S. universities, and world history has slowly begun to emerge as a viable research field. Although Latin America plays a part in this globalizing vision, its place within the field remains problematic.The essays that follow ex…
Commerce and Credit on the Periphery: Tarija Merchants, 1830-1914
E CON GM IC historians of nineteenth-century Latin America have spilled much ink over the export economy. Clearly, the integration of Latin America as an exporter of raw materials to the industrial North Atlantic nations is one of the major themes in the region's economic development during that period. The emphasis on the export complex, however, has meant the neglect of other aspects of economic history, such as the role of internal markets, or…
Mission Land Tenure on the Southeastern Bolivian Frontier, 1845-1949
The land tenure arrangements of missions in Latin America have received insufficient attention. Given the vast extent of land the missions controlled on the Latin American frontier and the effect that land tenure arrangements had on the functioning of the missions, this is a serious oversight. Rather than focus on land tenure, most studies of the missions have examined primarily issues such as evangelization, the labor regime, and demographic pat…
Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Frontier Development in Lowland Bolivia
Diplomacy and Trade: The Current Contradictory Relations between the United States and Bolivia
Diplomatic relations between Bolivia and the United States have been difficult since Evo Morales became president in 2006. Despite these poor relations and even despite the abrogation of the ATPDEA (Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act) in 2008, commerce between Bolivia and the United States has increased more than during governments allied with the United States. These conclusions show that the state of diplomatic relations are not ne…
Capitalisme agraire au Perou. L'essor du neo-Latifundisme dans le Perou Republicain
Labor Strikes and Reciprocity on Chuquisaca Haciendas
IN past few years historians have begun to question image of docile and compliant hacienda peon over whom landowner had near absolute control. As study of Latin American hacienda has advanced, it has become clear that there often was an active give-and-take, in which landowner did not always have upper hand. This was especially evident during lateV nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when a boom in exports and consolidation of national econ…
Capitalisme agraire au Pérou. L'essor du néo-Latifundisme dans le Pérou RépublicainPequeña propiedad, poder y economía de mercado, Acos, Valle de Chancay
Franciscan Missions and Chiriguano Workers: Colonization, Acculturation and Indian Labor in Southeastern Bolivia
An earlier version of this essay was presented at the Symposium “Bolivia: Formation and Development of a Labor Force, 1600 to the Present,” organized by Ann Zulawski and Lesley Gill for the 45th International Congress of Americanists, Bogotá, Colombia, 1985. The author wishes to thank Robert H. Jackson, Brooke Larson, and Nils Jacobsen for their comments on the paper. Research funds were provided by the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-…
Bolivia: Press and Revolution, 1932-1964
Colonial and Republican Missions Compared: The Cases of Alta California and Southeastern Bolivia
In Latin America missions have traditionally played a large role in conquering and incorporating native populations into dominant society. Most studies of the missionary enterprise have focused on the colonial period, when the missions reached their high point. The Jesuit missions in Paraguay and the Franciscan missions of central and northern Mexico, for example, ruled over vast territories and thousands of Indians. Although these institutions a…
Generations of Scientists and Engineers: Origins of the Computer Industry in Brazil
Brazil today constitutes one of the major manufacturers of microcomputers in the world, a seemingly surprising feat for a country that many view as part of the Third World. How was it possible for a developing nation like Brazil to create a high-technology industry and join the exclusive club of highly industrialized countries like the United States, Japan, and Germany as one of the major manufacturers of computers? Many political scientists, eco…
Mexikanisches Banditentum (1821-76) als sozialgeschichtliches Phänomen
Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Frontier Development in Lowland Bolivia
Economic Change and Rural Resistance in Southern Bolivia, 1880-1930
Economic Change and Rural Resistance in Southern Bolivia, 1880-1930
Andean Rituals of Revolt: The Chayanta Rebellion of 1927
Through the analysis of two rituals that occurred during the 19z7 Indian rebellion in southern Bolivia, it is possible to discern the motivations and worldviews of the Andean peasantry. One ritual, in which the rebels imitated a trial to legitimate their takeover of a number of estates, shows how they were linked to other Indian allies; it also illustrates their efforts to maintain ties with the national government. The second ritual, an act of c…
Obras completas de Humberto Vazquez-Machicado y Jose Vazquez-Machicado
Obras completas de Humberto Vázquez-Machicado y José Vázquez-Machicado
Circuitos comerciales tradicionales y cambio económico en los Andes Centromeridionales (1830-1930)
Nation-States and Indians in Latin America
Bolivia: Land of Struggle
Mission Land Tenure on the Southeastern Bolivian Frontier, 1845-1949
The land tenure arrangements of missions in Latin America have received insufficient attention. Given the vast extent of land the missions controlled on the Latin American frontier and the effect that land tenure arrangements had on the functioning of the missions, this is a serious oversight. Rather than focus on land tenure, most studies of the missions have examined primarily issues such as evangelization, the labor regime, and demographic pat…
Commerce and Credit on the Periphery: Tarija Merchants, 1830-1914
E CON GM IC historians of nineteenth-century Latin America have spilled much ink over the export economy. Clearly, the integration of Latin America as an exporter of raw materials to the industrial North Atlantic nations is one of the major themes in the region's economic development during that period. The emphasis on the export complex, however, has meant the neglect of other aspects of economic history, such as the role of internal markets, or…
The Barriers to Proletarianization: Bolivian Mine Labour, 1826–1918
Labour history in Latin America has, to a great degree, followed the models set by the rich historiography in Europe and North America. Other than a justifiable concern with the peculiarities in production for export of primary goods, much of the Latin American historiography suggests that the process of labour formation was rather similar to that of the North Atlantic economies, only lagging behind, as did industrialization in this region of the…
Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians
Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class, and Domestic Service in Bolivia
This examination of female domestic service concentrates on the mistress-servant relationship across a 50-year period in Bolivia, in order to understand why a dominant class of women hires others to carry out domestic duties. Within this broader context, the author explores female domestic service through oral histories with mistresses and servants, court cases and interviews. She explores how gender and ethnicity are mediated by class position a…
“Peripheral” Labour? Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization: Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization
This volume takes an alternative look at the notion of 'wage-workers'. The contributors suggest that the idea of a 'pure' working class should be reconsidered and examine specific South Asian and Latin American case studies. A large part of the working class in the so-called third world and also in the main capitalist countries is either free (but coerced through non-economic means) or does hidden work labor e.g. as formally self-employed produce…
Kollasuyo: Indianische Geschichte der Republik Bolivien: Propheten des indianischen Aufbruchs
The New Latin American Mission History
The subject of missions-formal efforts at religious conversion of native peoples of the Americas by colonizing powers-is one that renders the modern student a bit uncomfortable. Where the mission enterprise was actuated by true belief it strikes the modern sensibility as fanaticism; where it sprang from territorial or economic motives it seems the rankest sort of hypocrisy. That both elements-greed and real faith-were usually present at the same …
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