By Mareike Winchell, author of After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia
In 2010, I was just beginning an ethnographic study of Quechua water activists in Cochabamba. At the cusp of starting my doctoral fieldwork, I had a conversation with an activist frien...
By Sarah Hines, author of Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia
In January 2006, Evo Morales Ayma became the first indigenous president of Bolivia. He was elected in the wake of a five-year period of popular rebellion that began with mass protests against...
This guest post is published as part of our blog series for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, January 4-6 in New York. #AHA20
by Kris Lane, author of Potosí: The Silver City That Changed the World
Quincentennials, even when not celebrated, concentrate th...