Remapping Bolivia

Anthropologists and other social scientists examine the rapidly changing historical moment in Bolivia signaled by the 2005 election of Evo Morales as the first indigenous national president in the Americas. They focus on the emerging cultural politics of territoriality and indigeneity in relation to state change and globalized struggles over the country's natural resources. Among the topics are the domestication of indigenous autonomies from the Pact of Unity to the New Constitution, hygiene panic and urban space in Santa Cruz, and Guaran穩 autonomies and their Others. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)