"We are not the true people" : notions of identity and otherness among the Ese Ejja of northern Bolivia

This thesis is based on eighteen months fieldwork in the Ese Ejja community of Portachuelo, on the lower Beni River, in northern Bolivia. The Ese Ejja are an indigenous Amazonian people of the Tacana linguistic family. The thesis analyses Ese Ejja ideas of alterity and demonstrates that such ideas a...

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Main Author: Lepri, Isabella
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408669