The citizen factory
Subtitle: schooling and cultural production in Bolivia
By: Aurolyn Luykx ; foreword by Douglas Foley.
Series: SUNY series, power, social identity, and education
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Aymara youth -- Education (Higher); Aymara youth -- Ethnic identity.; Aymara youth -- Social conditions.; Indian students -- Bolivia.; Teachers -- Training of -- Bolivia.; Nationalism -- Bolivia.; Bolivia -- Ethnic relations.
Description: This vivid ethnography of Bolivian students explores the challenges they confront as they try to maintain their indigenous identity. In examining how the concrete practices of schooling shape student identities, this book looks at how the discourses and texts produced by students themselves are appropriated toward this end, and how students mobilize their own cultural resources to contest this process, critiquing and subtly transforming the agenda of state-run education.

These issues are addressed as they are played out in the lives of young Native South Americans (Aymaras) studying to become rural schoolteachers in Bolivia, the poorest and most "indigenous" of all Latin American countries.

It is a vivid ethnographic account of how these students confront the assaults which their professional training wages against their indigenous identity, as they alternately absorb and contest the ethnic, class, and gender images meant to transform them from "Aymara Indians" into "Bolivian citizens."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-378) and index.