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Author:   Aurolyn Luykx ,  Douglas Foley
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.744kg
ISBN:  

9780791440377

ISBN 10:   0791440370
Pages:   399
Publication Date:   07 January 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Foreword by Douglas Foley Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Educational Theory and School Ethnography Indigenous Peoples, Schools, and the Nation-State 1 Ethnicity and the Construction of Nationhood From Conquest to Crisis: An Overview of Bolivia's Political Development The Indigenous Metropolis: Urban Aymarasin La Paz Popular Culture and ""The Language Problem"" Obstacles to the Construction of a Unified and Unifying Bolivian Nationalism Race and Class in the Nationalist Project Official History and Popular Humor: Public Tropes of Ethnic and International Conflict Finding a ""We"": Defining Lo Boliviano against a Hostile World 2 Rural Schooling in Bolivia Roots of Aymara Education: The Struggle for Land and Literacy Rural Education in the Twentieth Century: Government Takes up the Reins Reverence and Resentment: Teachers and Rural Communities On the Threshold of Reform 3 Student Life at the Normal School ""Peor que nada es quedarse ..."": Career Choices and the Lack Thereof Students as Regulated Subjects Dormitory Life 4 Curriculum and Identity The Reproduction of Ideology in Schools: Socialization as the Interpellation of Student-Subjects The Citizen in the Nation, the Nation in the World Proletarian Professionals: The Ambiguous Class Identity of Bolivian Teachers The Teacher in the Rural Community: Solidarity and Social Distance Uneasy Positionings on the Field of Race-or, ""We Have Met El Hermano Campesino and His Is (not?) Us"" Gender Ideology in the Normal School: Frozen Images and Structured Silences Conclusion: Rural Education and the Race/Class Intersection 5 Commodified Language and Alienated Exchange in the Normal School Pedagogical Praxis and ""School Knowledge"" The Capitalist Mode of Symbolic Production: Schoolwork as Alienated Labor 6 Student Resistance to Commodification and Alienation: Silence, Satire, and the Academic Black Market Resistance in the Classroom The Linguistic Black Market: Illicit Exchange in the Academic Economy Student Resistance through Expressive Practices 7 An Alternative Vision: Notes toward a Transformative Bolivian Pedagogy Dia del Indio , Los Pozos (August 1, 1993) Socialization and the Multiple Subject Political Practice and Popular Culture Rehabilitating Marx: Hegemonic Subject Positions as Alienated Use Values Building a Democratic Pedagogy Schooling as Cultural Critique Directions for Future Research Structural Pessimism vs. Strategic Optimism Appendix: Interviewed Students Notes Bibliography Index"

Reviews

The Citizen Factory is a testimony to the organic character of all ethnographic interpretation...This study of a Bolivian Normal School will challenge comparative politics and comparative education scholars to rethink their studies of political socialization. Moreover, fellow anthropologists will be drawn to [the author's] theoretical model for studying ideological hegemony and identity construction. In short, Luykx has produced an 'educational ethnography' that extends the genre itself. - Douglas Foley, from the Foreword The ethnographic descriptions are rich, and well embedded in history and in the broader social context. The author has done a very thorough study. The book shows the links between the larger social structure and day-to-day life. In fact, it shows the work people do to create (and sometimes contest) the larger social structure-in this case, gender, ethnic, and class identities. - Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt, University of Michigan, Dearborn

Author Information

Aurolyn Luykx teaches in the Linguistic and in the Pedagogy departments at the Universidad Mayor de San Simon (UMSS), Cochabamba, Bolivia.

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