Some Time From Now They'll be Good Farmers
Rethinking Perceptions of Social Evolution in an Area of Interethnic Contact in Lowland Bolivia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Sturtevant (0009-0006-3410-6868, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 180-198 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-2222 • E-ISSN: 1744-2230 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17442222.2015.1055891 |
| OpenAlex | W1501260498 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 35 |
This article discusses the terms in which ethnoracial difference is understood in a context where migrants from the highlands of Bolivia have come into contact with an indigenous group in the lowlands. Ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2007 and 2010 found that these differences were not normally discussed in terms of inherent and unchangeable characteristics, but rather in terms of a fluid position in a hierarchy of human development. This hierarchical scale is described and enacted locally in terms of practices and social relationships. Commerce, social organization, and cultural production are indicators of a group’s social progress. As groups change their practices, they change their position in the hierarchy. Further, changes in the local context are expected to encourage groups to change their practices. This contrasts with national discourses that generally focus on the opposition of white and Indian and see change in terms of race mixture - mestizaje - between these opposing designations. In these national discourses, the attributes of whiteness or indigeneity are seen to be fixed and essential characteristics, and difference is achieved through degree of biological and cultural mixture. I conclude by suggesting that each of these conceptions of social difference have historical antecedents that date back to the colonial encounter and may contribute to our understanding of present-day national politics
Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Ethnography · Geography · Hierarchy · Indigenous · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Social change · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Ecology · Gender Studies · Politics and Society in Latin America · Race, Genetics, and Society
Bolivia
Modern Inquisitions
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes
Indian Migration and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Charcas
The Origins of Totalitarianism
A Market of Identities
We Are Originarios …‘We Just Aren't from Here’
Modern Inquisitions
An Ideology of Modernization
Legalizing Identities
The origins of totalitarianism
The Politics of Ethnicity
Where Blackness Resides
Stones on the Road
Chiquitano and the Multiple Meanings of Being Indigenous in Bolivia
The Indigenous in the Plural in Bolivian Oppositional Politics
Manipulating Cartographies
The Fall of Natural Man
Neoliberal Multiculturalism
Gran Poder
Introduction
Bolivia's Contentious Politics of 'Normas y Procedimientos Propios
Prior Consultations in Plurinational Bolivia
Extraction, Protest and Indigeneity in Bolivia
Good Living for Whom? Bolivia's Climate Justice Movement and the Limitations of Indigenous Cosmovisions
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |