Natives Making Nation: Gender, Indigeneity, and the State in the Andes

Contributors

Contributors / 195 contributors Michelle Bigenho, assistant professor of anthropology at Hampshire College, is author of Sounding Indigenous: Authenticity in Bolivian Music Performance (Palgrave, 2002). In her field research on music performance in Peru and Bolivian she has drawn on her skills as a performing musician. She is currently working on a manuscript that examines the globalization of “Andean” music through an ethnography of Bolivian music in Japan. Andrew Canessa received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from the London School of Economics in 1994 and is director of the Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Essex. He has conducted regular fieldwork in the Aymara-speaking village of Pocobaya since 1989, working on diverse themes such as procreation, identity , gender, religion, and schooling. Recent publications include Pocobaya: Género e identidad en una aldea andina (Mamahuaco Press, 2005) and “Reproducing Racism: Schooling and Race in Highland Bolivia” (Journal of Race and Education, 2004). He is working on a monograph, “We Will Be People No More”: Ethnicity, Identity, and Change in Highland Bolivia. Brooke Larson is professor of history at Stony Brook University. Her books include Cochabamba, 1550–1900: Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia (2d ed., Duke, 1998); Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes (with O. Harris and E. Tandeter; Duke, 1995); and most recently, Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810–1910 (Cambridge, 2004). Her current book project explores the politics of land, schools, and identity on the Aymara altiplano. Marcia Stephenson is associate professor of Spanish and women’s studies at Purdue University. Her research and publications focus on issues related to gender, race, and ethnicity in Bolivia. She is working on a book project studying colonialism and the international trade in Andean camelids. Krista Van Vleet is assistant professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bowdoin College. Her research focuses on gender and kinship, emotion, and narrative among Quechua speakers in Bolivia. Recent publications include “The Intimacies of Power” (2001), which examines violence between mothers- and daughters-in-law and “Partial Theories” (2003), a discussion of envy and gossip in a rural Andean community. She is working on a book called Relative Intimacies: Performing Kinship and Narrating Lives in the Bolivian Andes. Mary Weismantel is professor of anthropology and director of Latin American and Caribbean studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of two books on the Andes, Food, Gender, and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes and Cholas and Pishtacos: Tales of Race and Sex in the Andes, as well as numerous articles. 196 / Contributors Elayne Zorn received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Cornell University and is associate professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology , University of Central Florida. A cultural anthropologist, she has carried out twenty-five years of fieldwork with Quechua-speaking people in highland Peru and Bolivia on topics including material culture (cloth), tourism, and tourist arts. Her most recent publication is Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island (University of Iowa Press, 2004). ...