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Bolivia: Bolivia Travel Guide for Your Perfect Bolivian Adventure!: Written by Local Bolivian Travel Expert (Travel to Bolivia, Travel Bolivia, Bolivia Travel) Nomad, Project 2016

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Autonomy and Power: The Dynamics of Class and Culture in Rural Bolivia (Anniversary Collection) Maria L. Lagos University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection, The Ethnohistory series, Ethnohistory series (Philadelphia, Pa.), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1994

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-198) and index.

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Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia by Marcia Stephenson Austin: University of Texas Press, University of Texas Press, [N.p.], 2010

In Andean Bolivia, racial and cultural differences are most visibly marked on women, who often still wear native dress and speak an indigenous language rather than Spanish. In this study of modernity in Bolivia, Marcia Stephenson explores how the state's desire for a racially and culturally homogenous society has been deployed through images of womanhood that promote the notion of an idealized, acculturated female body. Stephenson engages a variety of texts--critical essays, novels, indigenous testimonials, education manuals, self-help pamphlets, and position papers of diverse women's organizations--to analyze how the interlocking tropes of fashion, motherhood, domestication, hygiene, and hunger are used as tools for the production of dominant, racialized ideologies of womanhood. At the same time, she also uncovers long-standing patterns of resistance to the modernizing impulse, especially in the large-scale mobilization of indigenous peoples who have made it clear that they will negotiate the terms of modernity, but always "as Indians."

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Trojan-Horse Aid : Seeds of Resistance and Resilience in the Bolivian Highlands and Beyond Susan Walsh Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 2014

In a compelling first-hand account of development assistance gone awry, Susan Walsh recounts how national, international, and multilateral organizations failed the Jalq'a people in the Bolivian Andes during the early millennium. Intent on assisting potato farmers, development organizations pushed for changes that ultimately served their own interests, paradoxically undermining local resilience and pushing farmers off their lands. Trojan-Horse Aid challenges the idea of Western capacity-building, particularly the notion that introduced technologies related to food production are essential ingredients for sustainable livelihoods among farmers. Walsh argues that the well-intentioned organizations working in Jalq'a communities paid insufficient attention to longstanding knowledge that has supported human survival in regions where the natural world has the upper hand. Walsh goes beyond a critical review of misguided aid to offer reflections on the relationship between Indigenous Knowledge and resilience theory, the hopeful future of development assistance, and the contradictions in her own hybrid role as researcher and development-practitioner. In light of growing global concern over the worsening food crisis and interconnected climate extremes, Trojan-Horse Aid offers an important critique of development practices that undermine peasant strategies as well as suggestions for more effective approaches for the future.--Amazon.com

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Trojan-Horse Aid : Seeds of Resistance and Resilience in the Bolivian Highlands and Beyond Susan Walsh McGill-Queen's University Press, 1, 2014

In a compelling first-hand account of development assistance gone awry, Susan Walsh recounts how national, international, and multilateral organizations failed the Jalq'a people in the Bolivian Andes during the early millennium. Intent on assisting potato farmers, development organizations pushed for changes that ultimately served their own interests, paradoxically undermining local resilience and pushing farmers off their lands. Trojan-Horse Aid challenges the idea of Western capacity-building, particularly the notion that introduced technologies related to food production are essential ingredients for sustainable livelihoods among farmers. Walsh argues that the well-intentioned organizations working in Jalq'a communities paid insufficient attention to longstanding knowledge that has supported human survival in regions where the natural world has the upper hand. Walsh goes beyond a critical review of misguided aid to offer reflections on the relationship between Indigenous Knowledge and resilience theory, the hopeful future of development assistance, and the contradictions in her own hybrid role as researcher and development-practitioner. In light of growing global concern over the worsening food crisis and interconnected climate extremes, Trojan-Horse Aid offers an important critique of development practices that undermine peasant strategies as well as suggestions for more effective approaches for the future.--Amazon.com

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Trojan-Horse Aid : Seeds of Resistance and Resilience in the Bolivian Highlands and Beyond Susan Walsh McGill-Queen's University Press, 1, 2014

A frank account about Andean aid that asks development workers to leave their hubris and Western recipes at home. A frank account about Andean aid that asks development workers to leave their hubris and Western recipes at home.

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Ritual and pilgrimage in the ancient Andes : the islands of the sun and the moon Brian S. Bauer and Charles Stanish Austin: University of Texas Press, 1st ed., Austin, Texas, 2001

The Islands of the Sun and the Moon in Bolivia's Lake Titicaca were two of the most sacred locations in the Inca empire. A pan-Andean belief held that they marked the origin place of the Sun and the Moon, and pilgrims from across the Inca realm made ritual journeys to the sacred shrines there. In this book, Brian Bauer and Charles Stanish explore the extent to which this use of the islands as a pilgrimage center during Inca times was founded on and developed from earlier religious traditions of the Lake Titicaca region. Drawing on a systematic archaeological survey and test excavations in the islands, as well as data from historical texts and ethnography, the authors document a succession of complex polities in the islands from 2000 BC to the time of European contact in the 1530s AD. They uncover significant evidence of pre-Inca ritual use of the islands, which raises the compelling possibility that the religious significance of the islands is of great antiquity. The authors also use these data to address broader anthropological questions on the role of pilgrimage centers in the development of pre-modern states. About the Author: Brian S. Bauer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Charles Stanish is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles.

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Disrupting the Patraon: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco Joel E. Correia University of California Press, University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2023

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Paraguay's Chaco region, cattle ranching drives some of the world's fastest deforestation and most extreme inequality in land tenure, with grave impacts on Indigenous well‐being. Disrupting the Patrón traces Enxet and Sanapaná struggles to reclaim their ancestral lands from the cattle ranches where they labored as peons—a decades-long resistance that led to the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights and back to the frontlines of Paraguay's ranching frontier. The Indigenous communities at the heart of this story employ a dialectics of disruption by working with and against the law to unsettle enduring racial geographies and rebuild territorial relations, albeit with uncertain outcomes. Joel E. Correia shows that Enxet and Sanapaná peoples enact environmental justice otherwise: moving beyond juridical solutions to harm by maintaining collective lifeways and resistance amid radical social-ecological change. Correia's ethnography advances debates about environmental racism, ethics of engaged research, and Indigenous resurgence on Latin America's settler frontiers.

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Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present (Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges) Ben [VNV Nobbs-Thiessen Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2020

In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the "March to the East." In an impoverished country dependent on highland mining, the MNR sought to convert the nation's vast "undeveloped" Amazonian frontier into farmland, hoping to achieve food security, territorial integrity, and demographic balance. To do so, they encouraged hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Bolivians to relocate from the "overcrowded" Andes to the tropical lowlands, but also welcomed surprising transnational migrant streams, including horse-and-buggy Mennonites from Mexico and displaced Okinawans from across the Pacific. Ben Nobbs-Thiessen details the multifaceted results of these migrations on the environment of the South American interior. As he reveals, one of the "migrants" with the greatest impact was the soybean, which Bolivia embraced as a profitable cash crop while eschewing earlier goals of food security, creating a new model for extractive export agriculture. Half a century of colonization would transform the small regional capital of Santa Cruz de la Sierra into Bolivia's largest city, and the diverging stories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants complicate our understandings of tradition, modernity, foreignness, and belonging in the heart of a rising agro-industrial empire.

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Bolivia: Geopolitics of a Landlocked State (Europa Country Perspectives) Ronald Bruce St John. Routledge, Taylor et Francis Group, Europa country perspectives, First edition., 2020

Bolivia: Geopolitics of a Landlocked State goes beyond the traditional focus on inter-American relations, territorial issues and the maritime question to provide the first comprehensive study of Bolivian foreign policy from independence to the present day. It aims to redress the balance between the often overstated importance of external determinants - actors and forces outside Bolivia which have influenced the foreign policy process - and the understated impact of internal determinants, similar actors and forces within Bolivia.0Drawing on 50 years of research and study, the author focuses on the five interrelated goals of sovereignty, national security, territorial integrity, continental solidarity and economic independence, which have characterized Bolivian foreign policy from the outset. In so doing, the negative impact which poor governance, weak state capacity and a fixation on the seaport issue had on the achievement of those five goals is centre stage in the discussion. In acknowledging the geopolitical ramifications of being landlocked, the singular nature of Bolivia's approach to the problem also is detailed. An examination of foreign policy today can no longer be confined to intergovernmental relations; instead, it must consider the full range of internal and external forces which have influenced its scope and direction. In addition to bilateral relations, boundary disputes and the seaport issue, this volume explores the impact of foreign capital and multinational companies, together with the effects of domestic entrepreneurs, political parties, labour unions and social movements. It also assesses the overlap or linkage between domestic and foreign variables when the two combined to influence Bolivian foreign policy

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Drum and Stethoscope : Integrating Ethnomedicine and Biomedicine in Bolivia Joseph William Bastien University of Utah Press, Chicago Distribution Center (CDC Presses), Salt Lake City, 1992

Focusing on specific cases, projects and clinical models in Bolivia, Bastien gives data and suggestions adaptable to other cultures and locations on ways to increase understanding and cooperation between "western" biomedicine, and alternative medical traditions, to the amelioration of both. Projects described include a workshop where doctors and shamans shared their experiences, and views on the pathology and treatment of common illnesses, finding unexpected common ground. With some 30 b&w photographs. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Mestizaje Upside Down: Aesthetic Politics In Modern Bolivia (pitt Illuminations) Sanjinés C. Javier, Sanjines C, Javier, Javier Sanjinés C University of Pittsburgh Press, Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas, Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2004

Mestizaje -- the process of cultural, ethnic, and racial mixing of Spanish and indigenous peoples -- has been central to the creation of modern national identity in Bolivia and much of Latin America. Though it originally carried negative connotations, by the mid-twentieth century it had come to symbolize a national unity that transcended racial divides. In Mestizaje Upside-Down, Javier Sanjines C. contends that the concept is not a true merging of equals, but representative of a fundamentally Western perspective that excludes indigenous ways of viewing the world. In this sophisticated study, he reveals how modernity in Bolivia has depended on a perception, forged during the colonial era, that local cultures need to be uplifted.Sanjines traces the rise of mestizaje as a defining feature of Bolivian modernism through the political struggles and up-heavals of the twentieth century. He then turns this concept on its head by demonstrating how the dominant discussion of mestizaje has been resisted and transformed by indigenous thinkers and activists. Rather than focusing solely on political events, Sanjines grounds his argument in an examination of fiction, political essays, journalism, and visual art. The introduction of a visual dimension to the dialogue allows Sanjines to offer a fresh view of twentieth-century essays on the formation of the nation-state. He offers a decisive alternative to Angel Rama's and Antonio Cornejo-Polar's tradition of Latin American literary studies, positing that there is a limitation to the social relevance of the lettered tradition that has dominated the field. Building upon the thoughts and theories of the indigenous intellectual and activist Felipe Quispe, "El Mallku," Sanjines suggests that Quispe is providing a new set of epistemic assumptions in which cultural studies and the social sciences are revealed to be complicit with the ideologies of modernity. The result is a unique and masterly overview of Bolivian culture, identity, and politics.

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Pollution in Lake Titicaca, Peru : training, research, and management T. G Northcote; Instituto de Aguas Alto Andinas; Westwater Research Centre Vancouver: Westwater Research Centre, University of British Columbia ; Puno, Peru: Instituto de Aguas Alto Andinas, Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, Vancouver, Puno, Peru, British Columbia, 1989

xi, 262 p. : 23 cm Includes summary in Spanish Issued also in Spanish under title: Contaminatión en el Lago Titicaca, Perú Includes bibliographical references

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Disrupting the Patrón : Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay's Chaco Joel E. Correia University of California Press, University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2023

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit (https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.151) www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Paraguay’s Chaco region, cattle ranching drives some of the world’s fastest deforestation and most extreme inequality in land tenure, with grave impacts on Indigenous well‐being. Disrupting the Patrón traces Enxet and Sanapaná struggles to reclaim their ancestral lands from the cattle ranches where they labored as peons—a decades-long resistance that led to the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights and back to the frontlines of Paraguay’s ranching frontier. The Indigenous communities at the heart of this story employ a dialectics of disruption by working with and against the law to unsettle enduring racial geographies and rebuild territorial relations, albeit with uncertain outcomes. Joel E. Correia shows that Enxet and Sanapaná peoples enact environmental justice otherwise: moving beyond juridical solutions to harm by maintaining collective lifeways and resistance amid radical social-ecological change. Correia’s ethnography advances debates about environmental racism, ethics of engaged research, and Indigenous resurgence on Latin America’s settler frontiers.

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Cochabamba : 1550-1900 : colonialism and agrarian transformation in Bolivia Brooke Larson Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books, Expanded ed, Durham, 1998

Winner of the 1990 Best Book Award from the New England Council on Latin American Studies This study of Bolivia uses Cochabamba as a laboratory to examine the long-term transformation of native Andean society into a vibrant Quechua-Spanish-mestizo region of haciendas and smallholdings, towns and villages, peasant markets and migratory networks caught in the web of Spanish imperial politics and economics. Combining economic, social, and ethnohistory, Brooke Larson shows how the contradictions of class and colonialism eventually gave rise to new peasant, artisan, and laboring groups that challenged the evolving structures of colonial domination. Originally published in 1988, this expanded edition includes a new final chapter that explores the book’s implications for understanding the formation of a distinctive peasant political culture in the Cochabamba valleys over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced : Indigenous Politics and the Struggle Over Land Nicole Fabricant The University of North Carolina Press, First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2012

The election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president in 2005 made him his nation's first indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples. El Movimiento Sin Tierra (MST), or the Landless Peasant Movement, played a significant role in bringing Morales to power. Following in the tradition of the well-known Brazilian Landless movement, Bolivia's MST activists seized unproductive land and built farming collectives as a means of resistance to large-scale export-oriented agriculture. In Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced , Nicole Fabricant illustrates how landless peasants politicized indigeneity to shape grassroots land politics, reform the state, and secure human and cultural rights for Native peoples. Fabricant takes readers into the personal spaces of home and work, on long bus rides, and into meetings and newly built MST settlements to show how, in response to displacement, Indigenous identity is becoming ever more dynamic and adaptive. In addition to advancing this rich definition of indigeneity, she explores the ways in which Morales has found himself at odds with Indigenous activists and, in so doing, shows that Indigenous people have a far more complex relationship to Morales than is generally understood.

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Snowfields : the war on cocaine in the Andes by Clare Hargreaves Holmes & Meier Publishers, Incorporated, UK ed., First Edition, PS, 1992

After the Colombian government and the Bush administration declared all-out war on the Colombian drug barons, cocaine traffickers turned their attention to Bolivia, the rugged landlocked country to the south. Already the largest producer of the raw coca leaf, Bolivia tripled its production of refined cocaine between 1989 and 1991 and now ranks second in the world. Profits from the cocaine industry have proved to be as addictive as the drug itself -- indeed, the Bolivian economy has become dependent on it. The prospect of weaning Bolivia off cocaine looks bleak without a drastic drop in demand from the West. This seems unlikely when the U.S. War on Drugs focuses on intervention abroad rather than education at home and the dismantling of Europe's borders results in an expanded European market for drugs. Unlike previous books on the cocaine trade, which examine the problem through Western eyes, "Snowfields" looks at the drug business through the eyes of the main players in Bolivia, where the white powder is made. In this compelling account, Clare Hargreaves draws from scores of interviews with drug barons who rule over vast empires, dirt-poor coca farmers, addicts, traffickers, the military, politicians, and America's drug warriors from the Drug Enforcement Administration.

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Coca yes, cocaine no : how Bolivia's coca growers re-shaped democracy Thomas Grisaffi Duke University Press Books, 1, 20181231

In Coca Yes, Cocaine No Thomas Grisaffi traces the political ascent and transformation of the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) from an agricultural union of coca growers into Bolivia's ruling party. When Evo Morales—leader of the MAS—became Bolivia's president in 2006, coca growers celebrated his election and the possibility of scaling up their form of grassroots democracy to the national level. Drawing on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork with coca union leaders, peasant farmers, drug traffickers, and politicians, Grisaffi outlines the tension that Morales faced between the realities of international politics and his constituents, who, even if their coca is grown for ritual or medicinal purposes, are implicated in the cocaine trade and criminalized under the U.S.-led drug war. Grisaffi shows how Morales's failure to meet his constituents' demands demonstrates that the full realization of alternative democratic models at the local or national level is constrained or enabled by global political and economic circumstances.ISBN : 9781478004332

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Coca yes, cocaine no : how Bolivia's coca growers re-shaped democracy Thomas Grisaffi Duke University Press Books, Duke University Press, Durham, 2019

"In Coca Yes, Cocaine No Thomas Grisaffi traces the political ascent and transformation of the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) from an agricultural union of coca growers into Bolivia's ruling party. When Evo Morales--leader of the MAS--became Bolivia's president in 2006, coca growers celebrated his election and the possibility of scaling up their form of grassroots democracy to the national level. Drawing on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork with coca union leaders, peasant farmers, drug traffickers, and politicians, Grisaffi outlines the tension that Morales faced between the realities of international politics and his constituents, who, even if their coca is grown for ritual or medicinal purposes, are implicated in the cocaine trade and criminalized under the U.S.-led drug war. Grisaffi shows how Morales's failure to meet his constituents' demands demonstrates that the full realization of alternative democratic models at the local or national level is constrained or enabled by global political and economic circumstances."-- Provided by publisher

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Lost in the Jungle : A Harrowing True Story of Adventure and Survival Yossi Ghinsberg Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2009

Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. But when a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of the wildest backdrops on the planet. Stranded without a knife, map, or survival training, he must improvise shelter and forage for wild fruit to survive. As his feet begin to rot during raging storms, as he loses all sense of direction, and as he begins to lose all hope, he wonders whether he will make it out of the jungle alive. Lost in the Jungle is the story of friendship and the teachings of nature, and a terrifying true account that you won’t be able to put down. **

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Lost in the Jungle : A Harrowing True Story of Adventure and Survival Yossi Ghinsberg [Ghinsberg, Yossi] Skyhorse Publishing (Perseus), 2011

A classic adventure book in the spirit of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Heart of Darkness. Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. But when a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of the wildest backdrops on the planet. Stranded without a knife, map, or survival training, he must improvise shelter and forage for wild fruit to survive. As his feet begin to rot during raging storms, as he loses all sense of direction, and as he begins to lose all hope, he wonders whether he will make it out of the jungle alive. Lost in the Jungle is the story of friendship and the teachings of nature, and a terrifying true account that you won’t be able to put down.

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ÉTICA EMPRESARIAL PÚBLICA EN BOLIVIA COMO FACTOR DE ÉXITO EN LA GESTIÓN Frías Monduela, Macedonia FRIAS MONDUELA , MACEDONIA, Murillo, 2019-04-26

Jane is unmarried and pregnant when she is turned out by her father. She moves into a room at the top of a squalid house. She cares nothing for it, or for her neighbours. But it is these neighbours that draw her back into life - Toby, a Jewish writer, John, a jazz player, and even her landlady. The first book of a trilogy.

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Aguas del Tunari, S.A. v. Republic of Bolivia. ICSID Case no. ARB/02/3. Jurisdiction. 20 ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal 450 (2005) Unknown Foreign Investment Law Journal 450, 2005

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Lost in the Jungle : A Harrowing True Story of Adventure and Survival Yossi Ghinsberg Skyhorse Publishing (Perseus), 2009;0

A classic adventure book in the spirit of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Heart of Darkness. Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. But when a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of the wildest backdrops on the planet. Stranded without a knife, map, or survival training, he must improvise shelter and forage for wild fruit to survive. As his feet begin to rot during raging storms, as he loses all sense of direction, and as he begins to lose all hope, he wonders whether he will make it out of the jungle alive. Lost in the Jungle is the story of friendship and the teachings of nature, and a terrifying true account that you won’t be able to put down.

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Parties and Political Change in Bolivia: 1880-1952 Herbert S. Klein Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing), 1969

In 1952 Bolivia experienced a profound social, economic and political revolution, one of the very few such revolutions which have occurred in Latin America. As Professor Klein points out, the remarkable fact about the Bolivian National Revolution was that it occurred at all. In terms of political, economic and social development Bolivia was one of the most retarded states of the continent and was not particularly riven by rapid or dislocating social and economic change. In this detailed study, Professor Klein stresses the origins and development of the Bolivian political system as it evolved into a stable two-party regime in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He then analyses the causes which led to the mutation of this system and the rise of class politics and social revolutionary movements in the middle decades of this century.

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Taxes and state power : political instability in Bolivia, 1900-1950 Carmenza Gallo Temple University Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1991

"Carmenza Gallo has wrought three minor miracles: she has made sense of Bolivia‘s arcane politics by looking seriously at the state’s bases of fiscal and popular support: she has challenged our conventional wisdom concerning the relative vulnerability of export-oriented domestic economies to oligarchic control and military power; she has provided a new basis for examining state formation in Latin America. Her greatest innovation has been to introduce taxation and government finance as both causes and effects of state-class relations.... In a day of debt crisis and fiscal reorganization among Third World states, the issues she raises have a very contemporary ring." —Charles Tilly, New School for Social Research In this interpretation of Bolivia’s political and social development, Carmenza Gallo focuses on the impact of the Bolivian tax code and its relationship to class structure. She argues that differences in state formation in primary export economies merge from variation of three main elements: class structure; the economic base and the export sector’s degree of integration into the domestic economy; and the reliance of fiscal resources on export sectors. Gallo produces a more complete view of the state’s responses to internal and international circumstances and a better understanding of the conditions under which officials of weak states, like Bolivia, act independently of upper classes.

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The kiss of death : Chagas's disease in the Americas Bastien, Joseph William, 1935- Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, Chicago Distribution Center (CDC Presses), Salt Lake City, 1998

"Chagas' disease has become one of the major public-health problems in Latin America. Current estimates are that sixteen to eighteen million people are infected. It is caused by a flagellate protozoan whose vector is the triatomine or vinchuca bug, locally referred to as the "kissing bug" because of its tendency to lodge on victims' faces during sleep." "Although there is no cure for the chronic stage, the disease vectors can be controlled and possibly eliminated through improved hygiene and living conditions. No longer exclusive to Latin America, Chagas' disease is spreading to North America with the migration of infected bugs, hosts, transfusions, transplant organs, and changes in climate." "The Kiss of Death is a thorough study of Chagas' disease with analysis of research involving epidemiology, entomology, parasitology, pathology, and immunology."--BOOK JACKET.

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A Revolution in Fragments : Traversing Scales of Justice, Ideology, and Practice in Bolivia Mark Goodale Duke University Press Books, Paperback, 2019

"The years between 2006 and 2015, during which Evo Morales became Bolivia's first indigenous president, have been described as a time of democratic and cultural revolution, world renewal (Pachakuti), reconstituted neoliberalism, or simply, "the process of change." In A Revolution in Fragments Mark Goodale unpacks these various analytical and ideological frameworks to reveal the fragmentary and contested nature of Bolivia's radical experiments in pluralism, ethnic politics, and socioeconomic planning. Privileging the voices of social movement leaders, students, indigenous intellectuals, women's rights activists, and many others, Goodale uses contemporary Bolivia as an ideal case study with which to theorize the role that political agency, identity, and economic equality play within movements for justice and structural change"-- Provided by publisher

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Economic Change and Rural Resistance in Southern Bolivia, 1880-1930 Erick Detlef Langer Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif, California, 1989

In The Late Nineteenth Century, The Disintegration Of The Silver-mining Economy That Had Survived Since The Colonial Period Effected Fundamental Economic And Social Changes In Southern Bolivia. The Changes Took Three Forms: Increased Conflict Between Peasants And Elites, Expanded Concentration Of Land Into Large Estates, And Worsened Labor Conditions Among The Peasants. This Study Concentrates On The Four Provinces In The Department Of Chuquisaca, Using Them As Case Studies Of How And Why Rural Peoples Adapted To And Resisted The Changes In Their Lives. Resistance Took Many Forms: Strikes, Rebellions, Insurrections, Court Challenges, Banditry, And Flight. In The Reactions To Change In These Provinces, The Author Sees Certain Common Characteristics That Transcend The Region And Can Be Discerned In Other Parts Of Latin America. On The Basis Of The Chuquisaca Experience, He Also Questions The Validity Of Current Theories Of Peasant Resistance And Rebellion. The Author Describes The Reactions Of The Oligarchy Based In Sucre, The Capital, To The Decline Of Silver As Bolivia's Major Export, Showing How They Attempted To Regain Their Preeminent Financial And Political Position By A Number Of Strategies, Notably The Expansion Of The Hacienda System. This Expansion Gave Rise To Different Problems In Each Of The Four Provinces: In Yamparaez, Fierce Resistance By The Indian Communities To Any Changes; In Cinti, Violent Labor Disputes Brought On By The Creation Of Enormous Agro-industrial Estates; In Azero, Indian Attempts To Escape Debt Peonage By Migrating Or By Joining Franciscan Missions; And In Tomina, Widespread Banditry. The Final Chapter Compares And Contrasts The Various Forms Of Rural Resistance In The Context Of Their Social, Economic, And Cultural Foundations. Erick D. Langer. Includes Bibliographical References.

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Lost in the Jungle : A Harrowing True Story of Adventure and Survival Ghinsberg, Yossi Skyhorse Publishing (Perseus), 2011

A classic adventure book in the spirit of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Heart of Darkness. Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. But when a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of the wildest backdrops on the planet. Stranded without a knife, map, or survival training, he must improvise shelter and forage for wild fruit to survive. As his feet begin to rot during raging storms, as he loses all sense of direction, and as he begins to lose all hope, he wonders whether he will make it out of the jungle alive. Lost in the Jungle is the story of friendship and the teachings of nature, and a terrifying true account that you won’t be able to put down.

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Cooperation and Hierarchy in Ancient Bolivia: Building Community with the Body (Bodies and Lives) Sara L. Juengst. Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated, Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), Milton, 2023

"This book explores how past peoples navigated and created power structures and social relationships, using a case study from the Titicaca Basin of Bolivia (800 BC - AD 400). Based on the analysis of human skeletal remains, it combines anthropological social theory, archaeological contexts, and biological indicators of identity, disease, and labor to present a microhistory. The analysis moves in scale from individual experiences of daily life to broad patterns of shared identity and kinship during a time of significant economic and ecological change in the lake basin. The volume is particularly valuable for scholars and students interested in what bioarchaeology can tell us about power and social relationships in the past and how this is relevant to modern constructions of community"-- Provided by publisher

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Haciendas and ayllus : rural society in the Bolivian Andes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Herbert S Klein; Stanford University Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif, California, 1993

“As the formost American scholar of Bolivia—his recent one-volume history of the country is completely satisfying—Klein. . . . has given us the most complete statistical profile of landowners and peasants presently available for any Latin Americna country. This is accompanied by shrewd insight and intelligent speculation.”—American Historical Review

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Dilemmas of Modernity : Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism Goodale, Mark Standford University Press, 2009 jan 01

__Dilemmas of Modernity__ provides a new framework for understanding Bolivia's contested present through the study of local encounters with transnational law, liberalism, and the institutions and agents of development.

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Elongated Skulls Of Peru And Bolivia: The Path Of Viracocha Foerster, Brien Brien Foerster, 2015

Overview: Cranial deformation of human skulls was a phenomenon that existed on all inhabited continents, and especially the case about 2000 years ago among the elite of societies. Nowhere was it more prevalent than it the countries now known as Peru and Bolivia. In this book the author shows how many ancient South American societies, such as the Inca had elongated heads, and that this cultural practice may be traced back to mysterious ancestors with very complex genetics origins.

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The rights of indigenous peoples : the cooperation between Denmark and Bolivia (2005-2009) Ana Cecilia Betancur J; Alejandro Parellada; International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.; Dankmark. Ambassaden (Bolivia) IWGIA; Royal Danish Embassy., Copenhagen, La Paz, 2010

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The archaeology of Tiwanaku : the myths, history, and science of an ancient Andean civilization Juan V. Albarracin-Jordan (Ph.D.) Impresión P.A.P., La Paz, Bolivia, Bolivia, 1999

Tiwanaku’s zenith took place between the fifth and tenth centuries of our era, five centuries of extraordinary achievements that haracterized the evolutionary trajectory of one of the most outstanding civilizations of the prehispanic world. Tiwanaku still plays a pivotal role in Andean cosmogony. It is still part of a plethora of myths that reproduce and, at the same time, configure the purposes and meaning of a magnificent cultural heritage. Archaeological inquiry at Tiwanaku began just a century ago. Nonetheless, its contributions to our understanding of the origin, development, and collapse of this ancient civilization have provided the scientific bases on which our knowledge of the past is currently constructed. In this book, Dr. Albarracin-Jordan makes a comprehensive analysis of the criteria that, historically, shaped different views about ancient Tiwanaku. Dr. Albarracin-Jordan has conducted archaeological research in the Tiwanaku Valley for more than a decade.

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The kiss of death : Chagas's disease in the Americas Joseph William Bastien University of Utah Press, Chicago Distribution Center (CDC Presses), Salt Lake City, 1998

"Chagas' disease has become one of the major public-health problems in Latin America. Current estimates are that sixteen to eighteen million people are infected. It is caused by a flagellate protozoan whose vector is the triatomine or vinchuca bug, locally referred to as the "kissing bug" because of its tendency to lodge on victims' faces during sleep." "Although there is no cure for the chronic stage, the disease vectors can be controlled and possibly eliminated through improved hygiene and living conditions. No longer exclusive to Latin America, Chagas' disease is spreading to North America with the migration of infected bugs, hosts, transfusions, transplant organs, and changes in climate." "The Kiss of Death is a thorough study of Chagas' disease with analysis of research involving epidemiology, entomology, parasitology, pathology, and immunology."--BOOK JACKET.

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nexusstc/Weaving life. The Textile Collection of the Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore, La Paz, Bolivia, following the productive chain/94e8ed8f23e8c7012121df8e1c539e2c.pdf

Weaving Life. The Textile Collection of the Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore, La Paz, Bolivia, following the productive chain Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore (Bolivia); Denise Y. Arnold; Elvira Espejo Ayka; Freddy Luis Maidana Rodríguez Museo Nacional de EtnografÍa y Folklore (MUSEF), 2015

In the present volume, in coordination with the Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore, in La Paz, we decided to remedy this situation by proposing a new focus towards the woven objects located in the museum deposits, this time centred on making these textiles within the productive chain of weaving, taking into account the social life of the weaving communities of practice in the region, and in addition the social life of textiles as both objects and subjects. We considered it necessary to adopt this approach for various reasons: First, museum collections are notoriously decontextualised. In only a very few cases, do we know with any confidence the provenance of a piece, its region, period or cultural affiliation. Knowing at least the processes in its making helps us contextualise better an object, and understand the relations between its component elements during its construction. Previously it was sufficient to say that a textile ‘had’ a certain colour. Now we could say in the catalogue that the colour of a textile had been introduced through dyes of a certain nature (by natural fibre tone, or a natural or artificial dye). And we could identify the processes in the construction of the woven object, by identifying the combination of structural components (the basic elements), added components (the majority of which are sewn on to the structural component) and extended components (a fringe for example). Second, textile-making historically has demanded the development of one of the most complex productive chains in the world. It is not a coincidence that the very complexity of this chain has served as the model for the development in Japan of the automobile industry and the industrial production of paints during the early twentieth century (Arnold and Espejo, 2013a: 38-40, 80). Third, a weaver does not work in isolation, but within the complex networks set up between different communities of weaving practice. These communities of practice, in turn, have been able to generate links historically with the wider access networks to raw materials that make up regional productive chains of weaving production. Fourth, the practices of textile-making depend on the availability to weavers of a range of technological and technical elements that have their own histories and processes of development. Knowledge of the productive chain thus includes knowledge of historical developments in loom and instrument technologies, and of regional weaving structures and techniques used over different periods

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The Rough Guide to Bolivia: Travel Guide with eBook Rough Guides, Daniel Jacobs Rough Guides, Rough Guides Main Series, 6, 2025

Ideal for independent travellers, this guidebook to Bolivia, written by destination experts, combines must-see sights with hidden gems and offers essential tips for both planning and on-the-ground adventures. It's sustainably printed to ensure environmental responsibility. Inside this Bolivia travel book, you'll find: Regional deep dive – coverage of key regions, offering a rich selection of places and experiences, and honest reviews of each one Itinerary samples – designed for various durations and interests Practical information – tips on how to get there and get around, use public transport, beat the crowds, save time and money, travel responsibly and more Expert recommendations – insider advice on where to eat, drink, and stay, alongside tips for nightlife and outdoor activities Seasonal tips – when to go to Bolivia, climate details, and festival highlights to plan your perfect trip Must-See pick – a curated selection of not-to-miss sights as chosen by our authors - Parque Nacional Madidi, Salar de Uyuni, Tiwanaku, Potosí, pink river dolphins, folk music and dance, Oruro Carnaval, La Paz, Reserva de Fauna Andina Eduardo Avarua, Cycling down the world's most dangerous road, Salteñas, Inca trails Navigational maps – colour-coded maps highlighting essential spots for dining, accommodation, shopping and entertainment Cultural insights – engaging stories delve into the local culture, history, arts and more, enriching your understanding of Bolivia Language essentials – a handy Spanish dictionary and glossary to help you communicate and connect with locals Inspiring travel photography – full-colour pictures capture the essence of Bolivia, bringing each location to life and fuelling your wanderlust Bonus eBook – Free download with purchase, offering digital access to our comprehensive guide Coverage includes: La Paz, Lake Titicaca, the Cordilleras and the Yungas, The southern Altiplano, Sucre, Cochabamba and the Central Valleys, Santa Cruz and the eastern lowlands, The Amazon

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A Revolution in Fragments : Traversing Scales of Justice, Ideology, and Practice in Bolivia Goodale, Mark Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books, 2019 nov 22

Mark Goodale's ethnographic study of Bolivian politics and society between 2006 and 2015 reveals the fragmentary and contested nature of the country's radical experiments in pluralism, ethnic politics, and socioeconomic planning.

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Architectures of Development and US Housing Aid in Cold War Latin America: Bolivia in the Trajectory of Inter-American Housing Operations Francisco Javier Quintana Royal College of Art, 2023

This thesis examines the architectures of development programmes implemented by the ‘first world’—with the US at the forefront—in Latin America during the Cold War. It explores the transnational trajectories and contact zones that shaped architectural ideas, underscoring the complexities of inter-American engagement. The research shows the impact of housing aid projects on Latin America’s built environment and local institutions, with Bolivia as a central case study. This dissertation is structured into three development periods. The first phase begins with the Point Four programme, announced in 1949 by US President Harry S. Truman, aimed at collaborating with ‘underdeveloped’ regions within an anti-communist framework. This part examines the ‘aided self-help housing’ strategy as a form of US international technical assistance to encourage development. It traces the progression of a low-cost housing model from early essays in Puerto Rico, spreading across Latin America in the 1950s through US Operations Missions. Chile is examined as a link connecting diverse trajectories. Also, the establishment of the Inter-American Housing Centre (CINVA) in 1951 is highlighted as a significant regional platform for architects to exchange housing ideas within an interdisciplinary environment, fostering South-South collaborations. It concludes by analysing Charles Abrams’ United Nations housing consultancy in Bolivia, which aimed to replace previous local programmes with economic austerity measures and to extend homeownership among the lowest-income people. The second period addresses the 1960s Alliance for Progress, initiated by US President John F. Kennedy after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, to support Latin American development and counter communism. It explores how economic aid funded ‘satellite cities’ and ‘neighbourhood units’, targeting not only low-income populations but also the middle socio-economic strata. Projects financed by the Inter-American Development Bank and the US Agency for International Development illustrate an inter-American trajectory of architectural and urban design ideas, alongside institutional interventions. Additionally, the investments of US companies, such as World Homes, in Latin America are discussed, highlighting the North-South dynamics in their local subsidiaries. Bolivia is presented as a case study to demonstrate a ‘bipolar’ urban growth driven by these international institutions and private firms, contrasting developments in El Alto’s highlands for lower-income residents with those in the La Paz valley for middle-income groups. The final part explores the continuation of US international housing aid during Robert McNamara’s tenure as World Bank President from 1968 to 1981. This third part shows McNamara’s transition from an ‘armed war’ to a ‘war on absolute poverty’, focusing on housing in ‘third world’ cities across Latin America, Africa, and Asia. It explores updated strategies of aided self-help housing through Sites and Services and Slum Upgrading programmes implemented in 35 countries. Through Bolivia, it explores interactions between foreign experts and local architects in project implementation, with case studies in El Alto and La Paz illustrating the translation of ideas into practice. The research draws on institutional, national, and personal archives from the US, Bolivia, Colombia, and Chile, providing qualitative and quantitative data on housing projects. This includes archival records of memoranda, letters, and contracts between foreign institutions and local authorities. These documents are confronted with personal files and recent interviews with architects and officials, offering insights into these housing operations’ reception, contestation, negotiation, and adaptation. This thesis aims to contribute to existing research in architectural history concerning western Cold War urbanisations in the ‘third world.’ It argues that a closer examination of Bolivia’s relationship with the US and international institutions can enhance our understanding of Latin America’s post-war urban landscape. By analysing the impact on architecture and the built environment in Bolivia, this study addresses the crossroads of development and housing, presenting a nuanced perspective that transcends the traditional ‘North-South’ narrative, revealing more complex layers of inter-American engagement.

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Weaving life. The Textile Collection of the Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore, La Paz, Bolivia, following the productive chain Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore (Bolivia); Denise Y. Arnold; Elvira Espejo Ayka; Freddy Luis Maidana Rodríguez Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore (MUSEF); Fundación Cultural del Banco Central de Bolivia, 2015

In the present volume, in coordination with the Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore, in La Paz, we decided to remedy this situation by proposing a new focus towards the woven objects located in the museum deposits, this time centred on making these textiles within the productive chain of weaving, taking into account the social life of the weaving communities of practice in the region, and in addition the social life of textiles as both objects and subjects. We considered it necessary to adopt this approach for various reasons: First, museum collections are notoriously decontextualised. In only a very few cases, do we know with any confidence the provenance of a piece, its region, period or cultural affiliation. Knowing at least the processes in its making helps us contextualise better an object, and understand the relations between its component elements during its construction. Previously it was sufficient to say that a textile ‘had’ a certain colour. Now we could say in the catalogue that the colour of a textile had been introduced through dyes of a certain nature (by natural fibre tone, or a natural or artificial dye). And we could identify the processes in the construction of the woven object, by identifying the combination of structural components (the basic elements), added components (the majority of which are sewn on to the structural component) and extended components (a fringe for example). Second, textile-making historically has demanded the development of one of the most complex productive chains in the world. It is not a coincidence that the very complexity of this chain has served as the model for the development in Japan of the automobile industry and the industrial production of paints during the early twentieth century (Arnold and Espejo, 2013a: 38-40, 80). Third, a weaver does not work in isolation, but within the complex networks set up between different communities of weaving practice. These communities of practice, in turn, have been able to generate links historically with the wider access networks to raw materials that make up regional productive chains of weaving production. Fourth, the practices of textile-making depend on the availability to weavers of a range of technological and technical elements that have their own histories and processes of development. Knowledge of the productive chain thus includes knowledge of historical developments in loom and instrument technologies, and of regional weaving structures and techniques used over different periods

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Regional markets and agrarian transformation in Bolivia : Cochabamba, 1539-1960 Robert Howard Jackson University of New Mexico Press, 1st ed., Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1994

In a groundbreaking volume, Professor Jackson seeks to discover when and how modernity supplanted the colonial era in Bolivia. The rural economy, structure of land tenure, and hacienda labor arrangements in the Andean region are carefully delineated through a case study of Cochabamba, a key region in the central valley of Bolivia, to trace changes in patterns present since the sixteenth century.Between 1840 and 1930, shifts in regional markets and changes in government policies resulted in hacienda owners earning less and incurring greater debt, which inevitably led to the insolvency of many hacienda owners resale of colonial-era estates, and an increase in the number of peasant landowners. These changes, in turn, set in motion events leading to the 1953 agrarian reform movement.An ambitious book that will contribute to our re-thinking of Andean economic history, of dependency theory, and of ethnohistory.-Eric Van Young, University of California, San Diego

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Lonely Planet · Bolivia Lonely Planet Publications Staff, Michael Grosberg, Brian Kluepfel, Paul Smith, Isabel Albiston, Mark Johanson Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd., Lonely Planet guidebooks, 9th edition, Footscray, Vic, 2016

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Bolivia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Tour the world's largest salt flat, walk in the path of the Inca or search for magic potions in La Paz markets; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Bolivia and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet Bolivia Travel Guide: Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, religion, politics, indigenous cultures, weaving, music, dance, landscapes, wildlife. Over 40 maps Covers La Paz, Lake Titicaca, the Yungas, the Cordilleras, the Southern Altiplano, Salar de Uyuni, Cochabamba, Potosi, Santa Cruz, the Amazon Basin and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Bolivia , our most comprehensive guide to Bolivia, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet South America on a Shoestring guide. Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition. 0207Lonely Planet Bolivia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Tour the world's largest salt flat, walk in the path of the Inca or search for magic potions in La Paz markets; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Bolivia and begin your journey now!0401(http://media.lonelyplanet.com/onix-feed/9781760341541.jpg01GOODREEBOOLonely) http://media.lonelyplanet.com/onix-fe... Planet0101GOODREEBOOLonely Planet Global Limited(http://www.lonelyplanet.comAU082016060101WORLD06159781743213933BC13159781743213933BC03159781743216491DGLONELY) http://www.lonelyplanet.comAU08201606... PLANET AUSTRALIAOP400234.99AUD0128.99CAD0123.95EUR0118.99GBP0127.99USD

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Bolivia Smith, Paul;Mutić, Anja;Armstrong, Kate Lonely Planet Publications, 7th ed, Footscray, Vic, 2010

Bolivia highlights -- Destination Bolivia -- Getting started -- Itineraries -- History -- Cuture -- Food & drink -- Environment -- Outdoors -- La Paz -- Lake Titicaca -- Cordilleras & Yungas -- South Altiplano -- Central highlands -- South central Bolivia & the Chaco -- Santa Cruz & Gran Chiquitania -- Amazon basin -- Directory -- Transportation -- Health -- Language.;The Bolivian government has released a National Tourism Plan to promote indigenous community tourism and sustainable tourism. Visitors can refer to this guide to discover the best places to hike, bike, and spot wildlife. 64 maps.

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Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century) Mario Blaser, Arturo Escobar; Dianne Rocheleau Duke University Press Books, New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century, 1st, 2010

For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their world in the face of conservation and development programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental organizations. In this ethnography of the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based “life projects” of the Yshiro, and the agendas of scholars and activists, Blaser argues for an understanding of the political mobilization of the Yshiro and other indigenous peoples as part of a struggle to make the global age hospitable to a “pluriverse” containing multiple worlds or realities. As he explains, most knowledge about the Yshiro produced by non-indigenous “experts” has been based on modern Cartesian dualisms separating subject and object, mind and body, and nature and culture. Such thinking differs profoundly from the relational ontology enacted by the Yshiro and other indigenous peoples. Attentive to people’s unique experiences of place and self, the Yshiro reject universal knowledge claims, unlike Western modernity, which assumes the existence of a universal reality and refuses the existence of other ontologies or realities. In __Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond__, Blaser engages in storytelling as a knowledge practice grounded in a relational ontology and attuned to the ongoing struggle for a pluriversal globality.

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Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century) Mario Blaser (editor); Arturo Escobar (editor); Dianne Rocheleau (editor) Duke University Press Books, New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century, 1, 2010

For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their world in the face of conservation and development programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental organizations. In this ethnography of the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based “life projects” of the Yshiro, and the agendas of scholars and activists, Blaser argues for an understanding of the political mobilization of the Yshiro and other indigenous peoples as part of a struggle to make the global age hospitable to a “pluriverse” containing multiple worlds or realities. As he explains, most knowledge about the Yshiro produced by non-indigenous “experts” has been based on modern Cartesian dualisms separating subject and object, mind and body, and nature and culture. Such thinking differs profoundly from the relational ontology enacted by the Yshiro and other indigenous peoples. Attentive to people’s unique experiences of place and self, the Yshiro reject universal knowledge claims, unlike Western modernity, which assumes the existence of a universal reality and refuses the existence of other ontologies or realities. In __Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond__, Blaser engages in storytelling as a knowledge practice grounded in a relational ontology and attuned to the ongoing struggle for a pluriversal globality.

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The Last of the Tribe : The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon Monte Reel Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Simon & Schuster, [N.p.], 2010

The riveting true story of the men who ventured deep into the Amazon to find and protect a mysterious Indian who is the Last of the Tribe.Throughout the centuries, the Amazon has yielded many of its secrets, but it still holds a few great mysteries. In 1996 experts got their first glimpse of one: a lone Indian, a tribe of one, hidden in the forests of southwestern Brazil. Previously uncontacted tribes are extremely rare, but a one-man tribe was unprecedented. And like all of the isolated tribes in the Amazonian frontier, he was in danger. Resentment of Indians can run high among settlers, and the consequences can be fatal. The discovery of the Indian prevented local ranchers from seizing his land, and led a small group of men who believed that he was the last of a murdered tribe to dedicate themselves to protecting him. These men worked for the government, overseeing indigenous interests in an odd job that was part Indiana Jones, part social worker, and were among the most experienced adventurers in the Amazon. They were a motley crew that included a rebel who spent more than a decade living with a tribe, a young man who left home to work in the forest at age fourteen, and an old-school sertanista with a collection of tall tales amassed over five decades of jungle exploration. Their quest would prove far more difficult than any of them could imagine. Over the course of a decade, the struggle to save the Indian and his land would pit them against businessmen, politicians, and even the Indian himself, a man resolved to keep the outside world at bay at any cost. It would take them into the furthest reaches of the forest and to the halls of Brazil s Congress, threatening their jobs and even their lives. Ensuring the future of the Indian and his land would lead straight to the heart of the conflict over the Amazon itself. A heart-pounding modern-day adventure set in one of the world s last truly wild places, The Last of the Tribe is a riveting, brilliantly told tale of encountering the unknown and the unfathomable, and the value of preserving it. <h3>The Washington Post - Matthew Shaer</h3> Reel…is good with the contextthe section on official Brazilian policy toward indigenous people is powerful and sadbut he's best when he's indulging in good old-fashioned adventure-writing: Arrows fly, poisonous snakes writhe through the undergrowth, and sinister ranchers lord over the boomtowns of Brazil's Wild West. The real star here turns out to be the Amazon itself, a place thick with irrepressible flora and a gaudy display of faunaa place, in short, that is neither paradise nor perdition.

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Cochabamba : 1550-1900 : colonialism and agrarian transformation in Bolivia Brooke Larson; American Council of Learned Societies Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books, Duke University Press, Durham, 1998

Winner of the 1990 Best Book Award from the New England Council on Latin American Studies This study of Bolivia uses Cochabamba as a laboratory to examine the long-term transformation of native Andean society into a vibrant Quechua-Spanish-mestizo region of haciendas and smallholdings, towns and villages, peasant markets and migratory networks caught in the web of Spanish imperial politics and economics. Combining economic, social, and ethnohistory, Brooke Larson shows how the contradictions of class and colonialism eventually gave rise to new peasant, artisan, and laboring groups that challenged the evolving structures of colonial domination. Originally published in 1988, this expanded edition includes a new final chapter that explores the book’s implications for understanding the formation of a distinctive peasant political culture in the Cochabamba valleys over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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A Revolution in Fragments : Traversing Scales of Justice, Ideology, and Practice in Bolivia Mark Goodale Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books, Duke University Press, Durham, 2019

"The years between 2006 and 2015, during which Evo Morales became Bolivia's first indigenous president, have been described as a time of democratic and cultural revolution, world renewal (Pachakuti), reconstituted neoliberalism, or simply, "the process of change." In A Revolution in Fragments Mark Goodale unpacks these various analytical and ideological frameworks to reveal the fragmentary and contested nature of Bolivia's radical experiments in pluralism, ethnic politics, and socioeconomic planning. Privileging the voices of social movement leaders, students, indigenous intellectuals, women's rights activists, and many others, Goodale uses contemporary Bolivia as an ideal case study with which to theorize the role that political agency, identity, and economic equality play within movements for justice and structural change"-- Provided by publisher

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