{"product_id":"contested-community-indigenous-land-rights-and-identity-politics-in-eastern-bolivia-9781793613738","title":"Contested Community: Indigenous Land Rights and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eVeronika Groke interrogates the concept of the comunidad indígena (indigenous community) and the role it plays within contemporary Bolivian discourse by examining its relation to the history and social life of a Guaraní community in Bolivia. While this concept is firmly embedded in contemporary discourse, different people and interest groups have varying understandings of its meaning and purpose. By showing the comunidad (community) to be a multifaceted complex of diverging and sometimes competing ideas, desires, and agendas, Grokes provides new insight into the actions and motivations of the various vested interest groups and highlights the political tensions related to culture, identity, and development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fine-grained ethnography follows a group of formerly captive Guaraní as they make a new indigenous \"community\" in the Bolivian Chaco. Groke traces the many constructed meanings of the term ‘community,’ showing how it takes form through a mix of histories, memories, myths, and discourses, as well as the lived experiences of kinship and reciprocal sociality. In a masterful examination of politics at multiple scales, Groke shows how the Guaraní negotiate development agencies’ aims to \"develop\" them and regional elites’ efforts to coop them, in the process maintaining Guaraní notions of freedom and mobility.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Nancy Postero, University of California, San Diego\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: The Comunidad in History — History in the Comunidad\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Cañón de Segura and Its Histories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. ‘Tenemos Nuestra Historia’: A Case of History Objectified\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: ‘This Is a Free Community’: Comunarios’ Ideas about ‘Comunidad’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Tranquility Beats Reciprocity? Of Shifting Meanings and Enduring Significance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. The Emergent Community\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Multiple Perspectives: Negotiating Different Meanings of ‘Comunidad’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. (N)GOs and the Economy of Proyectos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Beautiful Culture, ‘Shitty Indians’: The Comunidades in Karai and Guaraní Identity Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Changing Alliances: The Elusive Position of Guaraní Comunidades in Local and Regional Politics\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042632040791,"sku":"9781793613738","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793613738.jpg?v=1750954932","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contested-community-indigenous-land-rights-and-identity-politics-in-eastern-bolivia-9781793613738","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}