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The Citizen Factory: Schooling and Cultural Production in Bolivia

The Citizen Factory: Schooling and Cultural Production in Bolivia

Luykx, Aurolyn

Hardcover

Series: Suny Series, Power, Social Identity, and Education

AnthropologyGeneral EducationTeaching Instruction

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ISBN10: 0791440370
ISBN13: 9780791440377
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 7 1999
Pages: 399
Language: English

A vivid ethnography of a group of students training to become schoolteachers in Bolivia and the challenges they face as they try to maintain their indigenous identity.

This vivid ethnography of Bolivian students explores the challenges they confront as they try to maintain their indigenous identity. In examining how the concrete practices of schooling shape student identities, this book looks at how the discourses and texts produced by students themselves are appropriated toward this end, and how students mobilize their own cultural resources to contest this process, critiquing and subtly transforming the agenda of state-run education. These issues are addressed as they are played out in the lives of young Native South Americans (Aymaras) studying to become rural schoolteachers in Bolivia, the poorest and most indigenous of all Latin American countries. It is a vivid ethnographic account of how these students confront the assaults which their professional training wages against their indigenous identity, as they alternately absorb and contest the ethnic, class, and gender images meant to transform them from Aymara Indians into Bolivian citizens.

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