Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xiv
3. Acknowledgments xix
4. Introduction 1
5. I. First Peoples and the Making of Andean and Amazonian Space
6. Myth of Inka Origin at Lake Titicaca 13
7. The Myth of Tunupa 20
8. Guaraní Creation Myth 22
9. Verticality and Complementarity 27
10. Peopling the Empire 34
11. Workers in the Fields of the Inka 38
12. Settlement and Landscape Transformation in the Amazonian Lowlands 41
13. II. States and Conquests in the Andes
14. Conquest by the Inka 45
15. “Our Natives Were Well Governed” 52
16. The Myth of the Chullpas and the Emergence of the Sun 55
17. A Spanish Vision of the Conquest 57
18. An Uru Vision of the Conquest 65
19. A Guaraní Vision of the Conquest 69
20. III. The Rich Mountain
21. Tales of Potosí 71
22. Imperial Panoply in the Baroque City 88
23. The Good Wife 90
24. Cacique Nobility and Heraldry 96
25. Trade with Potosí 101
26. Mining and the Mita 105
27. New Worlds, Jesuit Worlds 109
28. Echoes of the Missions 113
29. IV. From Indian Insurgency to Creole Independence
30. Death to Bad Government 115
31. The Siege of La Paz 122
32. An Unbearable Yoke 127
33. The Specter of Justice 130
34. The Creole Cry of Freedom 133
35. Debate over Spanish Sovereignty 135
36. Guerrilla Patriots 141
37. Frontier Confrontations 146
38. Farewell 149
39. Inventing Bolivia 152
40. V. Market Circuits and Enclave Extraction
41. A Conspiracy of Commerce 161
42. The Argument for Free Trade 170
43. The Silver Patriarch 175
44. Transforming the Property Regime 181
45. Disentailment and Its Discontents 184
46. Integration of the Lowlands 188
47. Dreams of the Railroad 193
48. Integration of the South 195
49. The Tin Baron 200
50. VI. The Nation and Political Fragmentation
51. The Peru-Bolivian Confederation 207
52. In the Forests of the Yuracaré 214
53. “Are You Not Equal?” 220
54. Cosmopolitan Taste 222
55. War and Peace on the Frontier 225
56. A Tenuous Alliance 228
57. Egalitarian Revolution 232
58. The War of the Pacific 234
59. The God Man 239
60. An Aymara Command 243
61. Social Darwinism in the Courtroom 245
62. “The Slow and Gradual Disappearance of the Indigenous Race” 251
63. VII. The Nationalization of Natural Resources
64. The Problem of the East 257
65. A Woman’s Realm 268
66. Everyday Life on the Hacienda 272
67. Landlord Counteroffensive 274
68. “Land to Those Who Work It” 278
69. The Catavi Massacre 287
70. Mines as Cemeteries 294
71. Sergio Almaraz Paz 298
72. The March to the East 302
73. A Beggar on a Chair of Gold 311
74. The Condemnation of Coca 315
75. The Blood of the Nation 318
76. VIII. Revolutionary Currents
77. The Laws of the Land 323
78. Resurrection of the Race 331
79. A Voice for Women 337
80. A Woman’s Work 339
81. The Business of War 346
82. The Ayllu-School 351
83. Front Lines 357
84. Leaving for the Front 363
85. The Death of Servitude 365
86. Trotsky on the Altiplano 371
87. Nation vs. Anti-nation 376
88. The Sudden Upheaval 383
89. The People versus the Rosca 387
90. “They Fought without Holding Back” 389
91. History Redeemed 390
92. Requiem for a Revolution 392
93. Iconoclast and Prophet 399
94. IX. Dictatorship and Democracy
95. Cold War Strongman 407
96. A Continental Vanguard 416
97. The Call to Armed Struggle 423
98. An Aymara in the Ranks 425
99. Under a Waning Moon 429
100. The Gospel of a Guerrilla 434
101. The Military-Peasant Pact 437
102. In the Name of Katari 439
103. Urban Underworld 447
104. We Need to Be Organized Too 452
105. A Strike of the Conscience 460
106. The Dictatorship on Trial 468
107. All Saints Massacre 477
108. Narco-Dictatorship 480
109. Labor and the Return to Democracy 486
110. The Crisis as Method 490
111. Horizons of Memory 494
112. Travails of the Migrant 499
113. X. Neoliberalism and Lowland Ascendancy
114. “Bitter Medicine” 503
115. In the Name of the Nation 514
116. Farewell to Llallagua 517
117. The Workers Disperse 520
118. Pushing Privatization 526
119. Privatization Bolivian-Style 529
120. Make Your Dream a Reality 534
121. A Leaf in the Wind 536
122. “For Sale” Signs 538
123. XI. Competing Projects for the Future
124. Song for the Flowers 541
125. Indian Theology 552
126. The Long March 555
127. In the Time of the Pachakuti 563
128. Radical Regionalism 575
129. Fiesta Power 581
130. Flaws in the System 584
131. A Day of One’s Own 587
132. The Cultural Life of Coca 589
133. The Coca Commodity Circuit 592
134. Even the Rain 603
135. Water Is Not for Sale 608
136. Like a Bird 613
137. The Gas War 615
138. XII Pachakuti?
139. Brother and Comrade 623
140. Deepening Divisions 633
141. Foot Soldiers of Camba Nationalism 636
142. Reclaiming the Capital 639
143. A New Social Contract 642
144. Living Well 646
145. Rights of Nature 650
146. Standoff in the Beni 653
147. “Creative Tensions” 662
148. The Wages of Development 667
149. A Final Offering 673
150. Suggestions for Further Reading 679
151. Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 687
152. Index 699