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Guiteras Mombiola, Anna 2024-10-10T08:49:52Z 2024-10-10T08:49:52Z 2018 Guiteras Mombiola, Anna (2019). !School Centres for ‘Savages’: in pursuit of a Convivial Sociability in the Bolivian Amazon". Mecila Working Paper Series. No. 16, São Paulo: The Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conviviality-Inequality I Latin America: 1-29. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/108840 https://mecila.net/en/working-papers In the 1930s, the Bolivian elites promoted an education policy inspired by indigenist thought which sought to solve the problems faced by indigenous people – concerning welfare, hygiene, agricultural techniques, land issues – and to value to some extent their own culture. The ideal pursued was to shape a truly conviviality of Bolivian society with its otherness, giving rise to a new type of ‘Indian’ who would contribute actively and voluntarily to the progress of the nation. This educational project also addressed the Amazonian societies through the so-called school centres for “savages”. The ‘wild nature’ and ‘primitive state’ of the ethnic groups with which these schools operated – specifically the Siriono and the Moré – however, meant that the educational actions undertaken under indigenist ideals were also impregnated with civilizing principles. eng open access School Centres for ‘Savages’: in pursuit of a Convivial Sociability in the Bolivian Amazon working paper