Papers by Silvia N Rivera Cusicanqui
By comparing the experience of visiting several University Libraries in the United States with th... more By comparing the experience of visiting several University Libraries in the United States with the recent claim for the validity or other, non written forms of knowledge and science, the author reaches the conclusion that with the contemporary tendency of demolishing the stacks in libraries the library is condemned to the vaults far from the central spaces of university campuses. She claims that the impulse of appropiation of written knowledge from all over the world and its gradual disposal are a form of intelectual colonialism by the predatory interests of corporate capital.
The Notion of “Rights” and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Modernity: Indigenous Peoples and Women in Bolivia
... the colonial legislation of the two republics as a legal instrument in their confrontations w... more ... the colonial legislation of the two republics as a legal instrument in their confrontations with the (formally) liberal Bolivian State.15 For example, to argue against the forced land expropriations per-petrated by republican hacendados, the cacique-apoderado move-ment in the ...
Anthropology and Society in the AndesThemes and issues
Critique of Anthropology, 1993
Résumé/Abstract Attempt to understand the relationship between the sociopolitical context and ant... more Résumé/Abstract Attempt to understand the relationship between the sociopolitical context and anthropological work in Peru and Bolivia. How the work of anthropology and related disciplines during the last two decades has been enriched and challenged by the ...
Liberal democracy and ayllu democracy in Bolivia: The case of Northern Potos
Journal of Development Studies, 1990
Economic and political reforms imposed on Bolivian indigenous communities (ayllus) in the name of... more Economic and political reforms imposed on Bolivian indigenous communities (ayllus) in the name of modernisation and democracy have actually furthered long‐standing colonial forms of oppression. Both liberal reformers and nationalist revolutionaries promoted a concept of ...
The Notion of “Rights” and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Modernity: Indigenous Peoples and Women in Bolivia
Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010
... the colonial legislation of the two republics as a legal instrument in their confrontations w... more ... the colonial legislation of the two republics as a legal instrument in their confrontations with the (formally) liberal Bolivian State.15 For example, to argue against the forced land expropriations per-petrated by republican hacendados, the cacique-apoderado move-ment in the ...
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