The Social Life of Indianism: Politics and Indigeneity in Twenty-First-Century Bolivia

A sophisticated analysis of an influential Indigenous political ideology.

When the political ideology known as "Indianism" developed in Bolivia in the 1960s, it was premised on a rejection of Bolivian nationalism. Over the ensuing decades, however, it underwent several mutations as it moved out of a close circle of intellectuals to grip the urban masses that brought Evo Morales-the first Indigenous president-to power in 2006.

The Social Life of Indianism offers a fresh perspective by examin...