Native World-System

Based on years of fieldwork this ethnography of the Bolivian Aymara trading system and its networks and economic strategies examines one of the most up-and-coming forms of indigenous entrepreneurship on the American continent in a region where the indigenous population is still stigmatized for being associated with poverty and backward ways. In doing so it illuminates a critical dynamic of globalization that is taking place behind the scenes. By analyzing Aymara economic institutions and networks and their concepts and practices of business management <em>The Native World-System</em> describes a system in which indigenous sociopolitical structures and religious values and beliefs are interwoven with an advanced economic practice specialized technological know-how and global networks. <p/><em>The Native World-System </em>is a volume in the<strong> ISSUES OF GLOBALIZATION: CASE STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY </strong>series which examines the experiences of individual communities in our contemporary world. Each volume offers a brief and engaging exploration of a particular issue arising from globalization and its cultural political and economic effects on certain peoples or groups.<br>