Learn MoreWe hope that you find these resources to be useful. Most of them have been supplied by QBL Board members who have done extensive research on Bolivia. While these resources reflect their personal interests, others have found them to be helpful as well. We will continue to update this collection as we find new resources and as time allows.
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Social Conditions in Bolivia
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Big Chalk Library
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On the Internet there is a website called "Big Chalk Library" that lets you download whatever it has. I think it may be only for a fee. It has numerous chapters of an excellent book on Bolivian society and culture that was published in 1973, called just "Bolivia" and written by Thomas Weil.
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Visit this website.
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Cochabamba! Water War in Bolivia
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by Oscar Olivera and Tom Lewis. (South End Press, 2004) Around year 2000, the city of Cochabamba, instead of using tax dollars to fix its decrepit water system, decided to privatize it and sell it to a private company affiliated with Bechtel. The new owners raised the price so high that many citizens would be faced with having no water. The citizens, led by Oscar Olivera and others, rebelled for months and finally were successful in reversing the outrage. Here is their story.
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Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia
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Marcia Stephenson
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999
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Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate
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An excellent analysis of Bolivian society by a man who spent decades doing development work there. His philosophy seems to be "sustainable development" from a culturally sensitive point of view. Since the book costs $30, I haven't bought it (yet).
Indiana: Notre Dame University Press, 2001
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Precarious Dependencies: Gender, Class, and Domestic Service in Bolivia
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Lesley Gill
Excellent book about women's lives and relations between the social classes, mostly in the last half of the 20th century in and around La Paz.
New York, Columbia University Press, 1994
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The Aymara of South America
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James Eagen
Small book with beautiful pictures, on kind of a middle school/junior high level, with plenty of information that adults would find educational.
Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company, 2002
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We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines
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June Nash
New York: Columbia University Press, 1993
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What else?
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Please refer also to our category "Aymara culture and rights."
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