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Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate : Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes and Amazon of Bolivia by Kevin Healy; Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Bolivia, like most developing countries around the world, strove for decades to imitate Western and particularly U.S. methods of development, importing the latest technologies, institutions, crops, and livestock. Finally, beginning in the 1970s, faced with many striking instances of failure in the application of the North American modernization paradigm, diverse sectors of Bolivian civil society turned inward to rediscover their country's own multicultural identities and agrarian wisdom as sources of strength upon which to build their own socioeconomic development. The shift spawned a proliferation of development projects grounded in a new "indigenization" or revitalization of cultural traditions. Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate: Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes and Amazon of Bolivia is the story of Bolivian rural development and cultural change. Part I provides an overview of the history of rural development in Bolivia―the long history of anti-indigenous discrimination, the introduction of aid programs in the Western development paradigm, the rise of grassroots movements challenging this paradigm, and the array of initiatives now contributing to the re
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- Author
- Kevin Healy; Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780268088194
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business, Political Science, History
- Rating
- 3.73 / 5 (15 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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