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Author Lazar, Sian, author.

Title El Alto, rebel city : self and citizenship in Andean Bolivia / Sian Lazar
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 328 pages) : illustrations
Series Latin America otherwise
Latin America otherwise.
Contents El Alto the city -- Constructing the zone -- Citizens despite the state -- Place, movement, and ritual -- How the gods touch humans (and vice versa) -- Competition, individualism, and collective organization -- "In-betweenness" and political agency -- The state and the unions
Summary El Alto, Rebel City combines ethnography and political theory to explore the astonishing political power exercised by the indigenous citizens of El Alto, Bolivia in the past decade
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-309) and index
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Subject Aymara Indians -- Bolivia -- El Alto -- Social conditions
Aymara Indians -- Bolivia -- El Alto -- Politics and government
State-local relations -- Bolivia -- El Alto
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Aymara Indians -- Politics and government
Aymara Indians -- Social conditions
Politics and government
Social conditions
State-local relations
Aymara (volk)
Protestbewegingen.
Burgerschap.
Identiteit.
SUBJECT El Alto (Bolivia) -- Social conditions
El Alto (Bolivia) -- Politics and government
Subject Bolivia -- El Alto
Bolivia.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822388760
0822388766