After Servitude – Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia

"The conflictive histories of the hacienda era are not even past--descendants of tenant farmers today confront both the sequelae of servitude and the enduring presence of inequality. Winchell's careful, clear-eyed attention to the layered significance of post-colonial property leads to unexpected revelations about kinship and race, land and labor, justice and accountability."--Jessaca B. Leinaweaver, author of The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru

"After Servitude offers what the best ethnography provides: a richly contextualized case study of global phenomena. It rewards with careful reevaluations of property rights, political reform, and indigenous/colonial relations, revealing the surprising ways in which they interweave in the living histories of contemporary Bolivia. An exemplary piece of scholarship."--Justin Richland, author of Cooperation without Submission: Indigenous Jurisdictions in Native Nation-US Engagements

"In this rich ethnography, Winchell compellingly argues that relational legacies of servitude deeply impact the search for indigenous justice. Even in Bolivia, where decolonization is a central goal of the state, liberal tools like rights and property are insufficient to untangle enduring patterns of kinship, mutual dependencies, land ownership, and authority."--Nancy Postero, author of The Indigenous State: Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia