Domination and Cultural Resistance

Download or read book Domination and Cultural Resistance written by Roger Neil Rasnake and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1988-08-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domination and Cultural Resistance examines the social life of the Yura, a Quechua-speaking Andean ethnic group of central Bolivia, and focuses especially on their indigenous authorities, the kuraqkuna or elders. Combining ethnohistorical research with contemporary fieldwork, Roger Neil Rasnake traces the evolution of leadership roles within the changing composition of the native Andean social groupings, the ayllus&—from the consolidation of pre-Hispanic Aymara polities, through the pressures of the Spanish colonial regime and the increasing fragmentation of the republican era, to the present.