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After Servitude

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How are injurious pasts redeployed by the dispossessed? After Servitude explores how agrarian engineers, Indigenous farmers, Mestizo mining bosses, and rural workers navigate racial hierarchies roo...
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  • 28 June 2022
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How are injurious pasts redeployed by the dispossessed? After Servitude explores how agrarian engineers, Indigenous farmers, Mestizo mining bosses, and rural workers navigate racial hierarchies rooted in histories of forced agrarian labor. In the rural Bolivian province of Ayopaya, where the liberatory promises of property remain elusive, Quechua people address such hierarchies by demanding aid from Mestizo elites and, when that fails, through acts of labor militancy. Against institutional faith in property ownership as a means to detach land from people and present from past, the kin of former masters and servants alike have insisted that ethical debts from earlier racial violence stretch across epochs and formal land sales. What emerges is a vision of justice grounded in popular demands that wealth remain beholden to the region’s agrarian past. By tracing Ayopayans’ active efforts to contend with servitude’s long shadow, Mareike Winchell illuminates the challenges that property confronts as both an extractive paradigm and a means of historical redress.
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Price: $29.95
Pages: 352
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 28 June 2022
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520386440
Format: Paperback
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"After Servitude invites us to pay closer attention to the ways people make claims on each other as they assert and rework the bonds of relatedness—as a means of repair, but not escape from the past."
 
Mareike Winchell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

 
Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface

Introduction

Part One: Kinship
1 • Claiming Kinship
2 • Gifting Land

Part Two: Property
3 • Producing Property
4 • Grounding Indigeneity

Part Three: Exchange
5 • Demanding Return
6 • Reviving Exchange

Conclusion: Property’s Afterlives

Acknowledgments 
Notes
Bibliography
Index