Table of Contents:
  • 1 Ethnicity and the Construction of Nationhood 1
  • 2 Rural Schooling in Bolivia 41
  • 3 Student Life at the Normal School 65
  • 4 Curriculum and Identity 123
  • 5 Commodified Language and Alienated Exchange in the Normal School 171
  • 6 Student Resistance to Commodification and Alienation: Silence, Satire, and the Academic Black Market 217
  • 7 An Alternative Vision: Notes toward a Transformative Bolivian Pedagogy 293
  • Appendix Interviewed Students 321.