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Dangl Examines Indigenous Social Justice Struggles in Bolivia

500 Year Rebellion book cover.

The following articles published in “Oral History Review: Journal of the Oral History Association,” examine how Indigenous movements in Bolivia have used oral history as a tool for social justice struggles and decolonizing research methods in the Andes. This work draws from CDAE Lecturer Benjamin Dangl’s book The Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia, which recently won a Nautilus Book Award.

Don Lcas Miranda, son of the cacique Toribio Miranda, conducting an Andean ceremony
Don Lucas Miranda, son of the cacique Toribio Miranda, conducting an Andean ceremony during a gathering of indigenous elders in 1990. The meeting was organized by the Andean Oral History Workshop to collect oral histories on the struggle of the caciques apoderados Indigenous movement in the early twentieth century. Courtesy of the Andean Oral History Workshop.
Andrs Jachaqullu (standing) speaking with the THOA in La Paz, Bolivia in 1990.
Andrs Jachaqullu (standing) speaking with the THOA in La Paz, Bolivia in 1990. Courtesy of the Andean Oral History Workshop.
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