Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822352679)

Drawing on extended ethnographic research conducted over the course of more than two decades, Andrew Canessa explores the multiple identities of a community of people in the Bolivian highlands through their own lived experiences and voices. He examines how gender, race, and ethnic identities manifest themselves in everyday interactions in the Aymara village. Canessa shows that indigeneity is highly contingent; thoroughly imbricated with gendered, racial, and linguistic identities; and informed by a historical consciousness. Addressing how whiteness and indianness are reproduced as hegemonic structures in the village, how masculinities develop as men go to the mines and army, and how memories of a violent past are used to construct a present sense of community, Canessa raises important questions about indigenous politics and the very nature of indigenous identity.


Author: Andrew Canessa
ISBN-10: 0822352672
ISBN-13: 9780822352679
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/26/2012
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2013