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ISBN 10: 0822978601
ISBN 13: 9780822978602
Author: Gabrielle Kuenzli
Kuenzli examines documents from the famous postwar Pe–as Trial to recover Aymara testimony during what essentially became a witch hunt. She reveals that the Aymara served as both dutiful plaintiffs allied with liberals and unwitting defendants charged with wartime atrocities and instigating a race war.
To further combat their “Indian problem,” Creole liberals developed a public discourse that positioned the Inca as the only Indians worthy of national inclusion. This was justified by the Incas’ high civilization and reputation as noble conquerors, along with their current non-threatening nature. The “whitening” of Incans was a thinly veiled attempt to block the Aymara from politics, while also consolidating the power of the Liberal Party.
Kuenzli posits that despite their repression, the Aymara did not stagnate as an idle, apolitical body after the civil war. She demonstrates how the Aymara appropriated the liberal’s Indian discourse by creating theatrical productions that glorified Incan elements of the Aymara past. In this way, the Aymara were able to carve an acceptable space as “progressive Indians” in society. Kuenzli provides an extensive case study of an “Inca play” created in the Aymara town of Caracollo, which proved highly popular and helped to unify the Aymara. As her study shows, the Amyara engaged liberal Creoles in a variety of ways at the start of the twentieth century, shaping national discourse and identity in a tradition of activism that continues to this day.
Acting Inca National Belonging in Early Twentieth Century Bolivia 1st Edition Table of contents:
1. The Aymara in the Civil War of 1899: Enemy or Ally of the Liberal Party?
2. From Aymara Liberals to Exemplary Incas: Nation Building in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia
3. Incantations of Nation and the Theatrical Performance of the Inca Past
4. New Stages in Defining Indian Identity: The Ethnic Politics of Caracollo’s Contemporary Inca Pl
Conclusion. Inca Play, Aymara Encore
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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