Dilemmas of Modernity provides a new framework for understanding Bolivia’s contested present through the study of local encounters with transnational law, liberalism, and the institutions and agents of development.

Mark Goodale’s ethnographic study of Bolivian politics and society between 2006 and 2015 reveals the fragmentary and contested nature of the country’s radical experiments in pluralism, ethnic politics, and socioeconomic…

Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader is a groundbreaking collection that brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions that anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice…

This remarkable collection of letters reveals the debate over universal human rights. Prominent mid-twentieth-century intellectuals and leaders-including Gandhi, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Arnold Schoenberg-engaged with…

Human rights offer the prevailing global approach to social justice, but how they work is far less clear. Through ethnographic case studies in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, this volume…

From Andean antiquity and Spanish colonialism to the present, The Bolivia Reader provides a panoramic view of Bolivia’s history, culture, and politics through a wide ranging collection of sources, most…