Beyond the Pure and the Authentic
Indigenous modernity in Andean Bolivia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2389059 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tathagatan Ravindran (0000-0003-2479-4776, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 321-333 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AlterNative An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1177-1801 • E-ISSN: 1174-1740 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/117718011501100401 |
| OpenAlex | W2207331176 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article explores the various forms in which indigenous practices and worldviews articulate with the modern, leading to the formation of a distinct indigenous modernity. It reveals that the construction of indigeneity in terms of purity and distance from the modern is being challenged by urban Aymaras (indigenous people of the Andean region of South America) who affirm their Aymara identity without enacting purity. This explains why modernizing and developmentalist assumptions are part of their discourse of indigenous liberation. This new indigenous political discourse stands in tension with a postdevelopmentalist indigenous politics, which is the product of a different engagement with modernity. Different encounters with colonialism and modernity have created multiple indigenous modernities with contradictory perspectives on indigenous political liberation and well-being. The article is a product of 22 months of ethnographic research in the city of El Alto between 2010 and 2014 that included participant observation in multiple neighborhoods of El Alto, 85 semistructured interviews and 5 focus groups
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics · Politics and Society in Latin America · Ecology
Disruptive Bricolage
On choosing sides
Geographies of Indigenous Identity
Maasai perspectives on modernity
Neo-extractivism, the Bolivian state, and indigenous peasant women’s struggles for water in the Altiplano
Inhabiting Two Places at the Same Time
Negotiating Contemporary Indigeneity
Transgressing the urban–rural divide alongside newly identifying Indigenous people in South Africa
Authenticity and decolonization
From Populist to Institutionalist Politics
Divergent identities
What undecidability does
Mohawk Interruptus
Provincializing Europe
El Alto, Rebel City
On the Cunning of Imperialist Reason
Latin America at a Crossroads
Dinámicas históricas y espaciales en la construcción de un barrio alteño
Imagined communities
The Cunning of Recognition
Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value
Conflict, claim and contradiction in the new 'indigenous' state of Bolivia
Indigenous Cosmopolitics in the Andes
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |