Bret Gustafson
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BOOKS


Gustafson, B. 2009 New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia. Durham: Duke University Press.


EDITED VOLUMES


2011. with Nicole Fabricant.  Remapping Bolivia: Resources, Territory, and Indigeneity in a Plurinational State. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press.


2010. with Mabel Moraa. Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America. Madrid:Iberoamericana/Vervuert.


MONOGRAPHS

Galdames, V., A.Walqui, and B. Gustafson. 2005. La Enseanza de Lenguas Indgenas en la Educacin Bilinge. La Paz: PROEIB Andes/INWENT. (Published in French, 2004. LՎcole Vivant: Enseigner la langue maternelle dans un programme dՎducation bilinge. Daouda, Senegal: INWENT.) (143pp).

Robles, T., B. Gustafson and F. Rojas. 2002. Necesidades Bsicas de Aprendizaje: Area Guarani. La Paz (Bolivia): Ministerio de Educacin, Cultura y Deportes. [Basic Educational Needs: Guarani Area]. (122 pp.)

Gustafson, B., L. Gutirrez, and S. Manuel. 1998. eereii. La Paz: UNICEF. [The Flowering Word, a social history written in the Guarani language]. (132 pp.)

Gustafson, B. 1996. ee: introduccin al estudio lingstico del idioma guaran, para guaran hablantes. La Paz: APG/UNICEF/TEKO-Guaran. [Language: An Introduction to the Linguistic Study of the Guarani Language, for Guarani Speakers]. (170 pp.)

Gustafson, B. 1996. Gua para el estudio de nuestras lenguas y nuestras culturas. La Paz: UNICEF. (123 pp.)


ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS 

in press. Guarani.  In The Languages of Bolivia. Mily Crevels, ed. University of Nijmegen and Plural Editors: Nijmegen and La Paz.

in press. Fossil Knowledge: Industry Strategy, Public Culture, and the Challenge for Critical Research.  In Owen Logan and John Andrew MacNeish, eds. Flammable Societies: Socio-Economic Studies of Oil and Gas. London:Pluto Press.

2011. Rewriting Maya Country in Mexico and Guatemala (Review Essay). Latin American Research Review 46(3).

2011.  Flashpoints of Sovereignty: Natural Gas and Territorial Conflict in Bolivia. In Oil, Integration, and Conflict: Towards an Anthropology of Oil. Andrea Behrends, Stephen Reyna, and Gunther Schlee, eds.  Oxford: Berghahn Books.

2010.  Autonoma e articulao: o gs natural e as transformaes das regies e do poder na Bolvia e Brasil. In Izabella Missagio, ed. Regies e Poder na Amrica Latina. UFG: Goiania Brasil.

2010. When States Act Like Movements: Dismantling Local Power and Seating Sovereignty in Bolivia. Latin American Perspectives 37(4).

2010. La soberana en los tiempos del gas: territorialidades y tcticas en el sureste boliviano. Umbrales (La Paz)

2009. Manipulating Cartographies: Plurinationalism, Autonomy, and Gas in Bolivia. Anthropological Quarterly 82(4):985-1016.

2008. La educacin y el resurgimiento indgena en Bolivia: desafos al proyecto de descolonizacin. In Mabel Moraa, ed. Cultura y Cambio Social: Proceedings of the South by Midwest I. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamricana/Vervuert.

2006. Spectacles of Autonomy and Crisis: Or, What Bulls and Beauty Queens have to do With Regionalism in Eastern Bolivia. Journal of Latin American Anthropology 11(2):351-379.

Tambin disponible en espaol. Published in Spanish as: Gustafson, B. 2008. Espectculos de Autonomia y Crisis: O, lo que los toros y las reinas tienen que ver con el regionalismo en Bolivia. Revista Willka 2(2), Special issue on Racismo y Elites Criollos en Bolivia. Revista Semestral, University of El Alto, Bolivia.


2004. El concepto de red y los conocimientos indgenas en la EIB. Qinasay: Revista de Educacin Intercultural Bilinge (Cochabamba, Bolivia). 2(1):7-22.

2002. "The Paradoxes of Liberal Indigenism: Indigenous Movements, State Processes, and Intercultural Reformism in Bolivia." In The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States. Edited by David Maybury-Lewis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Pp. 267-306.

BOOK REVIEWS

2010    Review of Mark Goodale, Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism. Stanford: Stanford University Press. American Anthropologist.                 

2008. Review of Daniel Goldstein, The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia, Durham: Duke University Press. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14(1): 228-229.

2008. Review of Dean, Bartholomew and Jerome Levi, eds. 2003. At the Risk of Being Heard: Indigenous Rights in Postcolonial States. Indigenous Nations Journal 6(1): 5(2)/6(1).

2004. Review of Ganson, Barbara. 2002. The Guarani in the Rio de la Plata. Stanford: Stanford University Press. In Tipit, Journal of South American Ethnology 2(1).

ESSAYS

2011. Bolivian Resource Politics.  Revista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Fall 2011.
 
2009. Bolivia 9/11: Bodies and Power on a Feudal FrontierCaterwaul Quarterly Spring-Summer 2009. (PDF)

2008. Reading Bolivia in the US Press. NACLA Report on the Americas 41(4):49-52.

2008. By Means Legal and Otherwise: The Bolivian Right Regroups. NACLA Report on the Americas 41(1): 20-25.

2006. "Indigenizing a Nation: Evo Morales and the Prospects of Change in Bolivia." Cultural Survival Quarterly 30(1).

2005. "On Peasants and Power in Eastern Bolivia." Invited commentary, Journal of Latin American Anthropology 10(1).

2005. "Language Rights and Guarani Renaissance in Bolivia." Human Rights Dialogue (Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs). Special Issue on Cultural Rights 2(12):11-12.

2003. "Political Defense in the Chapare: Voices from Bolivia." Cultural Survival Quarterly 26(4).

2003. "The Spirituality of the Coca Leaf: Interview with M. Choque and C. Mamani." Cultural Survival Quarterly 26(4).

2002. "Commentary on 'Through Indigenous Eyes': Toward Appropriate Decision-Making Regarding Mining on or Near Ancestral Lands." Annual Bank Conference on Developing Economies, Oslo, Norway. (Comments based on a research project of the North-South Institute, Canada, led by Vivianne Weitzner.

2001. "Guarani." In Diccionario Histrico de Bolivia. Josep M. Barnadas, ed. Sucre (Bolivia): Grupo de Estudios Histricos.

2000. Quechua. Quichua. Aymara. Diablada. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures. Daniel Balderston, et al. eds. New York: Routledge. Gustafson, B. 1997. Guarani Educational Politics and Multicultural State-Making in Bolivia. Cultural Survival Quarterly 22(1):20-21.

1997. "Guarani Education Politics and Multicultural State-Making in Bolivia." Cultural Survival Quarterly 22(1):20-21.