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Table of Contents

About the Series ix
Acknowledgments xi
Acronyms xv
On Languages and Labels xix
Introduction. Ethnographic Articulations in the Age of Pachakuti 1
Part 1. Resurgent Knowledge
1. Soldiers, Priests, and Schools: State Building in the Andes and the Guarani Frontier 33
Interlude. To Camiri 61
2. Guarani Scribes: Bilingual Education as Indigenous Resurgence 65
Interlude. To Itavera 95
3. Guarani Katui: Schooling, Knowledge, and Movement in Itavera 101
Part 2. Transnational Articulations
Interlude. To La Paz, via Thailand 135
4. Networking Articulations: EIB from Project to Policy 143
Interlude. Bolivia or Yugoslavia 171
5. Prodding Nerves: Intercultural Disruption and Managerial Control 175
Part 3. Return to Struggle
Interlude. La Indiada, como para Dar Miedo 209
6. Insurgent Citizenship: Interculturalism beyond the School 215
Interlude. Interculturalism to Decolonization 247
7. Shifting States 253
Notes 285
Glossary 301
References 303
Index 319

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Analyzes bilingual intercultural education in Bolivia

About the Author

Bret Gustafson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.

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"Much anticipated by anthropologists of Latin America, New Languages of the State is an entirely new contribution to the ethnography of the Andes, and it speaks to much broader issues about development banks, globalization, indigenous movements, and more. Bret Gustafson makes sense of transnational processes, bureaucratic logics, and ideological formations by moving between diverse locales in Bolivia, from the most remote locations in Chaco, to the upscale professional offices of La Paz, and then on to international meetings in Thailand and the United States." Julia Paley, author of Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile "A beautifully crafted, magnificently expansive, and inspiring work of engaged historical ethnography! Bret Gustafson traces Bolivia's heralded experiment in bilingual education by planting it deep in the subsoil of Guarani culture and politics and by projecting it against the larger canvas of neoliberal reformism in the 1990s. In plotting the choreography of state, NGO, and grassroots struggles over indigenous knowledge and schooling, Gustafson opens up new horizons on Bolivia's vibrant Guarani movement and its radicalizing agendas in the early 2000s. This is, quite simply, the work of a seasoned anthropologist and gifted writer."--Brooke Larson, author of Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910

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