Culture Shock! Bolivia - A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

dCULTURESHOCK! BULGARIA An Ayamara man in a papyrus boat on Lake Titicaca, Titi Kontiki. Boats and even fl oating houses have be ...

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FAST FACTSg Bolivians in Sucre presenting offerings for the Pachamama, Mother Earth, on Good Friday. Indigenous beliefs and Cath ...

hCULTURESHOCK! BULGARIA A Bolivian child takes a nap in a market in La Paz. On sale are fresh local produce such as bananas, pum ...

Overview of Land and History 45 One-sided Death Toll At this point it is important to understand that at least 110 protesters ha ...

46 CultureShock! Bolivia The promised constituent assembly for a new constitution will be a lengthy and embattled process. Nothi ...

Overview of Land and History 47 The type of visitor to arrive in Bolivia has probably already been impressed with some aspect of ...

48 CultureShock! Bolivia Unity in diversity seems to be on the rugged path from slogan to reality, making inroads on the public ...

‘The people [of Bolivia] who rose up in the last several years got riddled with bullets, but they prevented their gas from evapo ...

50 CultureShock! Bolivia Characters On the surface, the people on a Bolivian street form a postcard that broadcasts ‘third world ...

The Bolivian People 51 In the fi rst edition of this book, I divided the space between people of fame and those who are anonymou ...

52 CultureShock! Bolivia Most of these Bolivians, on their way to school or work, are not dreaming of a vicarious identity with ...

The Bolivian People 53 returns from their fame. In a place where power seemed to be monopolised by a few, fame is divvied up amo ...

54 CultureShock! Bolivia Guarachi once responded to an emergency call and carried an injured man heavier than himself down from ...

The Bolivian People 55 Too Easy? My own case may prove Illich to be right or wrong. Less than fi ve minutes following a dog bite ...

56 CultureShock! Bolivia question is not the availability of health care services but their distribution. Barriers to distributi ...

The Bolivian People 57 but nothing is farther from the truth. In fact, Kallawayas are known as travelling doctors. Kallawayas pa ...

58 CultureShock! Bolivia maintaining cultural self-esteem. The Cholo and Chola represent a transition between pure indigenous cu ...

The Bolivian People 59 Demonstrators and Street Vendors In the mid 1980s, hyper- infl ation threatened to tear the country apart ...