After Servitude

Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia

After Servitude
Mareike Winchell
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h229 x 152mm - 352pg
28 Jun 2022 US
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9780520386440
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How are injurious pasts redeployed by the dispossessed? After Servitude chronicles how agrarian engineers, indigenous farmers, mestizo mining bosses, and rural workers navigate racial hierarchies rooted in histories of forced agrarian labor. In the rural Bolivian province of Ayopaya, where the liberatory promises of property remain elusive, Quechua people address such hierarchies by demanding aid from mestizo elites and, where that fails, through acts of labor militancy. Against institutional faith in property ownership as a means to detach land and people, present and past, the kin of former masters and servants alike have insisted that ethical debts from earlier racial violence stretch across epochs and formal land sales. What emerges is a vision of justice grounded in popular demands that wealth remain beholden to the region' s agrarian past. By tracing Ayopayans' active efforts to contend with servitude' s long shadow, Mareike Winchell demonstrates existing alternatives to property both as an extractive paradigm and a technique of historical redress.
Mareike Winchell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
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ISBN-13: 9780520386440
Published: 28 Jun 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 499g
Pages: 352

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