Peru & Bolivia in the Scholarly Press

Articles:
Hillman, John (2002).  The Mining Industry and the State:  The Politics of Tin Restriction in Bolivia, 1936-1939.  Bulletin of Latin American Research, 21, (1) 40-72.

Nickson, Andrew and Claudia Vargas (2002).  The Limitations of Water Regulation:  The Failure of the Cochabamba Concession in Bolivia.  Bulletin of Latin American Research, 21, (1) 99-120.

Stephenson, Marcia (2002).  Forging a Indigenous Counterpublic Sphere:  The Taller de Historia Oral Andina in Bolivia.  Latin American Research Review, 37, (2) 99-118.

Radding, Cynthia, "From the Counting House to the Field and Loom: Ecologies, Cultures, and Economies in the Missions of Sonora (Mexico) and Chiquitania (Bolivia),"
Hispanic American Historical Review, 81 (2001), 45-88.

Book Reviews:
Fernando Campero Prudencio (ed.), Bolivia en el Siglo XX:  la formación de la Bolivia contemporánea, (La Paz: Harvard Club de Bolivia, 1999).  Reviewed by Herbert S. Klein in the February 2002 issue of the Journal of Latin American Studies, 34, (1) 194-195. 

Zoila S. Mendoza (2000) 
Shaping Society Through Dance:  Mestizo Rital Performance in the Peruvian Andes,  University of Chicago Press (Chicago and London)  xv + 283 pp. + music CD.  Reviewed by Nicole Bourque in the July 2002 issue of the Bulletin of Latin American Research, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 472.

William M. Denevan,
Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2001),  pp. xxx+396.  Reviewed by Christian Brannstrom in the August 2002 issue of Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 766-767.

Carolyn Dean, Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ:  Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999).  Reviewed by Penny Dransart in February 2002 issue of the Journal of Latin American Studies, 34, (1) 173-175.

John Crabtree and Laurence Whitehead (eds.),
Towards Democratic Viability:  The Bolivian Experience, (Basingstoke:  Palgrave, 2001).  Reviewed by Merilee S. Grindle in May 2002 issue of the Journal of Latin American Studies, 34, (2) 454-455.  Reviewed by Donna Lee Van Cott in January 2002 issue of the Bulletin of Latin American Research, 21, (1) 147-148.

Lorraine Nencel. 
Ethnography and Prostitution in Peru (London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2001).  Reviewd by Christine Hunefeldt in January 2002 issue of the Bulletin of Latin American Research, 21, (1)  158-159.

Bolivian Chief Speaks of Reform in Visit to Washington, DC

Bolivia's new president offered assurances on November 12th that his country would "work with austerity'' to reverse its economic slide and expects the efforts will work.  "You cannot be president of Bolivia if you are not an optimist,'' he said.

President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada met with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick and President Bush.   At the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund he told officials that Bolivia has become stable enough politically to begin serious economic overhauls.  "We have to resolve the

economy issues,'' Sanchez de Lozada said.  "I think that that is going to be a difficult task, but if we work with austerity and the financial institutions' support, we will succeed.''

Sanchez de Lozada spoke at Georgetown University of the rigors of trying to govern a country suffering from a four-year recession and endemic corruption.

"This not the best time to be president of Bolivia,'' he said, "but I'm an optimist. You cannot be president of Bolivia if you are not an optimist.''

His main challenges, he said, are to fight effects of the recession by creating jobs and fighting corruption and inequities within the society.

A U.S.-educated mining executive, Sanchez de Lozada, 72, served as president previously, from 1993 to 1997, and hopes to begin five major public works projects, including construction of public housing and a cross-country highway to create jobs.

[Summarized from AP article retrieved from www.boliviatimes.com on 11/14/02.

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