The Gran Poder and the Reconquest of La Paz
According to her, the disappearance of La Paz's native population was not the result of intermarriage and attrition, but of the loss of collective land ownership and of the social systems that allowed people to identify as Indians. According to Mitchell, "they also helped change Carnival f...
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| Published in: | Journal of Latin American anthropology Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 294 - 328 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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North Miami
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
01-11-2006
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| Summary: | According to her, the disappearance of La Paz's native population was not the result of intermarriage and attrition, but of the loss of collective land ownership and of the social systems that allowed people to identify as Indians. According to Mitchell, "they also helped change Carnival from something in which people participated on an individual basis into something in which audience and actors were clearly delineated" (1995:60). According to his own account, "that lucky day, I went out to the street for no reason beyond a strange impulse, as if some unknown force was driving me from inside." According to Vilela del Villar: It was retouched by two inexperienced foreign painters who had lived a somewhat loose life. |
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| ISSN: | 1085-7052 1935-4932 1548-7180 1935-4940 |
| DOI: | 10.1525/jlat.2006.11.2.294 |