Work will make them citizens. Tribute and weapons in 19th-century Bolivia
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2014v6n12p83Keywords:
citizenship, Indian political/public activities, stateAbstract
This article focuses on the complex, heterogeneous and controversial conversion of the Bolivian Indian into a citizen. It analyzes his capacities as a producer of wealth – worker/taxpayer – and constitutional defender of the territory or as a people in arms – militia soldier/civic guard/auxiliary army – with the aim of establishing the means he used to acquire, claim and enjoy this status. Throughout the 19th century, the public exercise of both civic functions under the parameters of utility, solidarity and service to society transformed him into the subject and object of a contradictory process of citizenship and de-citizenship, in which the centrality of his transformative action and intervention in the processes of national construction of the 19th century stands out.
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