After Servitude

Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia

Dr. Mareike Winchell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38643-3 (ISBN)

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How are injurious pasts redeployed by the dispossessed? After Servitude explores how agrarian engineers, Indigenous farmers, Mestizo mining bosses, and rural workers navigate racial hierarchies rooted in histories of forced agrarian labor. In the rural Bolivian province of Ayopaya, where the liberatory promises of property remain elusive, Quechua people address such hierarchies by demanding aid from Mestizo elites and, when that fails, through acts of labor militancy. Against institutional faith in property ownership as a means to detach land from people and present from past, the kin of former masters and servants alike have insisted that ethical debts from earlier racial violence stretch across epochs and formal land sales. What emerges is a vision of justice grounded in popular demands that wealth remain beholden to the region’s agrarian past. By tracing Ayopayans’ active efforts to contend with servitude’s long shadow, Mareike Winchell illuminates the challenges that property confronts as both an extractive paradigm and a means of historical redress.

Mareike Winchell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface

Introduction

Part One: Kinship
1 • Claiming Kinship
2 • Gifting Land

Part Two: Property
3 • Producing Property
4 • Grounding Indigeneity

Part Three: Exchange
5 • Demanding Return
6 • Reviving Exchange

Conclusion: Property’s Afterlives

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.06.2022
Zusatzinfo	26 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-38643-4 / 0520386434
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38643-3 / 9780520386433
Zustand	Neuware