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- Title
'We are all Chiquitano': Struggles over Territory and Sovereignty in Lowland Bolivia.
- Authors
Weber, Katinka
- Abstract
This article explores the various ways in which whites and mestizos in Concepción, a municipal capital in the Santa Cruz department of eastern Bolivia, seek to delegitimize the Chiquitano indigenous political project. One popular way of neutralizing the threat that this project poses to their sovereignty over the region's land, resources, and people is through employing a regionalist discourse of mestizaje to erode the identity boundary (cf. Barth 1969) that Chiquitanos create between themselves and local whites and mestizos. In order to explain this strategy, I will provide a historical background to the current local political climate, as well placing this in the context of rising Cruceño regionalist sentiment.
- Subjects
SANTA Cruz (Bolivia); BOLIVIA; MESTIZOS; CHIQUITO (South American people); SOVEREIGNTY
- Publication
Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology, 2013, Vol 18, Issue 2, p314
- ISSN
1935-4932
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jlca.12022