Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-238) and index.
Contents
Modern dilemmas -- Paris in the Andes : law and the modern subject -- The making of a legal universe : law and the practice of everyday life -- Courts of desire : gender, power, and the law -- Human rights and the moral imagination : becoming liberal in the Norte de Potosí -- Modern dreams : an ethnography of grandeur.
Summary
'Dilemmas of Modernity' provides an innovative approach to the study of contemporary Bolivia, moving telescopically between social, political, legal, and discursive analyses, and drawing from a range of disciplinary traditions.