Bolivia and the Making of the Global Indigenous Movement

Anthropology, Development and Transnationalism

By: Juanita Roca-SÃ¡nchez

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Paperback | 21 May 2026 | Edition Number 1

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This book investigates how western anthropological trends, development discourse and transnational activism came to create and define the global indigenous movement.

Using Bolivia as a case study, the author demonstrates through a historical research, how international ideas of what it means and does not mean to be indigenous have played out at the national level. Tracing these trends from pre-revolutionary Bolivia, the Inter-American indigenismo in the 1940s up to Evo Moralesâ downfall, the book reflects on Boliviaâs national-level policy discourse and constitutional changes, but also asks to what extent these principles have been transmitted to the countryâs grassroots organisations and movements such as âIndianismoâ, âKatarismoâ, âCSUTCBâ and âCIDOBâ. Overall, the book argues that indigeneity can only be adequately understood, as a longue dur©e anthropological, political, and legal construction, crafted within broader geopolitical contexts. Within this context, the classical dichotomy between âindigenousâ and âwhitesâ should be challenged, in favour of a more nuanced understanding of plural indigeneities.

This book will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of global studies, political anthropology, history of anthropology, international development, socio-legal studies, Latin American history, and indigenous studies.

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