Bolivia Multiétnico y Pluricultural, Ten Years Later

Abstract

This essay treats the rise of separatist sentiment in lowland Bolivia, a region of the country that is dominated by whites rather than Indians. It addresses antecedents of that sentiment that stretch back to the start of the 20th century, and the surprising way in which the 1990s rhetoric of ‘multiculturalism’ and ethnic rights has been seized upon by this self-described minority within the majority-indigenous nation of Bolivia. Finally, it examines the special role played by lowland Indians (specifically the Guaraní) in this process, as they are deployed and sometimes deploy themselves as an indigenous anti-type to Andean Indians.

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