The "lettered city" and the insurrection of subjugated knowledges in Latin America

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-94

  Aparicio, Juan Ricardo ^a   Blaser, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coloniality; Intellectuals; Latin America; Modernity; Social movements; Subjugated knowledges; The lettered city

Indexed keywords

EID: 41249087578     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2008.0000     Document Type: Article

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