The 'Postulate Of Abundance': Cholo Market And Religion In La Paz, Bolivia

The 'Postulate Of Abundance': Cholo Market And Religion In La Paz, Bolivia Nico Tassi, 2010 In Bolivia's capital city, La Paz, urbanised indigenous highlanders (cholos) have produced one of the most successful experiments of indigenous entrepreneurship in the region. Rejecting locally dominant bourgeois values, for example modesty and thriftiness, cholos run a thriving transnational economy of conspicuous consumption placing moral emphasis on spending in excess, and rapidly materialising...

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