Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State

Lesley Gill

Paper, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11805-7
$29.50 / £17.50

May, 2000
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11804-0
$83.50 / £49.00

1. Introduction

1 Ruptures

2. City of the Future

3. Adjusting Poverty

4. Miners and the Politics of Revanchism

5. School Discipline

6. The Military and Daily Life

2 Reconfigurations

7. Power Lines

8. Global Connections

9. El Alto, the State, and the Capitalist Imperium

About the Author

Lesley Gill is an associate professor of anthropology at the American University. She has written two other books based on her fieldwork in Bolivia, where she has been conducting research since 1980: Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Frontier Development in Lowland Bolivia, which received an Outstanding Academic Book Award by Choice, and Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class, and Domestic Service in Bolivia.

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