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School Centres for ‘Savages’: in pursuit of a Convivial Sociability in the Bolivian Amazon Guiteras Mombiola, Anna 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. 2024-10-10T08:49:52Z 2024-10-10T08:49:52Z 2018 working paper 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 eng Mecila Working Paper Series: The Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conviviality-Inequality I Latin America open access