Domination and Cultural Resistance Authority and Power Among an Andean People

Domination and Cultural Resistanceexamines the social life of the Yura, a Quechua-speaking Andean ethnic group of central Bolivia, and focuses especially on their indigenous authorities, the kuraqkunaor elders. Combining ethnohistorical research with contemporary fieldwork, Roger Neil Rasnake traces the evolution of leadership roles within the changing composition of the native Andean social groupings, the ayllusfrom the consolidation of pre-Hispanic Aymara polities, through the pressures of the Spanish colonial regime and the increasing fragmentation of the republican era, to the present.Rasnake, Roger N. is the author of 'Domination and Cultural Resistance Authority and Power Among an Andean People' with ISBN 9780822308096 and ISBN 0822308096.