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FROM THE FAT OF OUR SOULS: SOCIAL CHANGE, POLITICAL PROCESS, AND MEDICAL PLURALISM IN BOLIVIA. By Libbet Crandon-Malamud. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. 267. $45.00 cloth.)
REVOLUTION AND REACTION: BOLIVIA, 1964-1985. By James M. Malloy and Eduardo Gamarra. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1988. Pp. 144. $29.95 cloth.)
LE RETOUR DES ANCESTRES: LES INDIENS URUS DE BOLIVIA XXe-XVIe SIECLE, ESSAI D'HISTOIRE REGRESSIVE. By Nathan Wachtel. (Paris: Gaillimard, 1990. Pp. 689.)
SILVER AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY POTOSI: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ANTONIO LOPEZ DE QUIROGA. By Peter Bakewell. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988. Pp. 250. $35.00 cloth, $15.95 paper.)
COERCION AND MARKET: SILVER MINING IN COLONIAL POTOSI, 1692-1826. By Enrique Tandeter. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. Pp. 332. $50.00 cloth.)
BAJO UN CIELO DE ESTANO. By Antonio Mitre. Biblioteca Minera Boliviana, no. 6. (La Paz: Asociacion de Mineros Medianas and Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales, 1993. Pp. 307)
EL ENIGMA DE LOS HORNOS: LA ECONOMIA POLITICA DE LA FUNDICION DE ESTAJO: EL PROCESO BOLIVIANO A LA LUZ DE OTRAS EXPERIENCIAS. By Antonio Mitre. Biblioteca Minera Boliviana, no. 7. (La Paz: Asociacion de Mineros Medianas and Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales, 1993. Pp. 143.)
TECNOLOGIA MODERNA EN LOS ANDES: MINERIA E INGENIERIA EN BOLIVIA EN EL SIGLO XX. By Manuel E. Contreras C. Biblioteca Minera Boliviana, no. 8. (La Paz: Asociacion de Mineros Medianas and Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales, 1993. Pp. 137.)
The last two decades have witnessed publication of a wealth of studies on the social and economic evolution of Bolivian society. Some of these books focus on the colonial period, others on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While most of this historical work has been done by historians, some economists and anthropologists have also gotten into writing history. The ongoing concerns, due mostly to the Revolucion Nacional in 1952 and its impact on Indian society, have been the Indian population of the past, the organization of Bolivian rural society, and (to a lesser extent) evolution of the non-Indian landed elite. Historians now know a great deal about the changing Quechua and Aymara Indian communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since Brooke Larson surveyed this literature in 1988, several dissertations and articles that she discussed...