This article explores ethnic alterity in the Bolivian Tipnis crisis, showing how claiming indigenous, Indian and colonial identities was significant in shaping government strategy and responses among ‘citified Indians’ of La Paz and El Alto and highland indigenous social movements. While Kuper claims indigeneity can distract attention from ‘real local issues’, Andean ethnicity is relational, roles assigned and reassigned in a continually shifting political theatre, where the ‘rebel Indian’ recurs historically, challenging colonial hegemony and reorienting the discussion towards issues of territorial autonomy.

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递归的印第安人：玻利维亚蒂普尼斯三月中互补种族差异的意义

本文探讨了玻利维亚蒂普尼斯危机中的种族异质性，展示了在拉巴斯和埃尔阿尔托的“公民印第安人”以及高地土著社会运动中，声称土著、印度和殖民身份在塑造政府战略和反应方面具有重要意义。虽然库珀声称土著可以分散人们对“真正的地方问题”的注意力，但安第斯种族是关系性的，在不断变化的政治舞台中分配和重新分配角色，“反叛的印第安人”在历史上反复出现，挑战殖民霸权，并将讨论重新定位到领土问题上自治。