Sinclair Thomson

University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD 1996

Colonial Latin America; Andean region; peasant and Indian politics; Andean religion; race/ethnicity; historical imagination and political memory; Bolivian history and politics.

Books:

The Bolivia Reader:  History, Culture, Politics.  Co-edited with Xavier Albó, Rossana Barragán, Mark Goodale, and Seemin Qayum.  Duke University Press, in progress. 

 

 

 

 

Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics.  Co-authored with Forrest Hylton. London:  Verso 2007. 

 

 

 

 

Ya es otro tiempo el presente:  Cuatro momentos de insurgencia indígena.  Co-authored with Forrest Hylton, Felix Patzi, and Sergio Serulnikov, with introduction by Thomson and Hylton, and prologue by Adolfo Gilly.  La Paz:  Muela del Diablo, 2003. 

 

 

 

 

We Alone Will Rule: Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency.  Madison:  University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.

 

 

Articles:

“Was There Race in Colonial Latin America?:  Identifying Selves and Others in the Insurgent Andes.”  In Laura Gotkowitz, ed., Indigeneity in the Andes and Mesoamerica, forthcoming from Duke University Press. 

“¿‘Serpiente resplandeciente’ o ‘monstruo de la humanidad’?:  Tupaj Katari y las comunidades aymaras de La Paz.”  In Adolfo Gilly and Rhina Roux, comps., Miradas sobre la historia.  Mexico City:  Ediciones Era, 2011. 

“La descolonización de la memoria:  El cuerpo reconstituido de Tupaj Katari.”  In Maya Aguiluz Ibargüen and Pablo Lazo Briones, coords., Corporalidades.  Mexico City: UNAM and Universidad Iberoamericana, 2010. 

“El reencabezamiento: Impactos, lecciones y memorias de la insurrección amarista/katarista en la independencia andina.  (Los itinerarios de Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzmán y Vicente Pazos Kanki).”  In Rossana Barragán, ed., De juntas, guerrillas, héroes y conmemoraciones.  La Paz:  Alcaldía de La Paz, 2010. 

"The Chequered Rainbow."  Co-authored with Forrest Hylton. New Left Review, September-October 2005. 

“Revolutionary Memory in Bolivia:  Anticolonial and National Projects from 1781 to 1952.” In Merilee Grindle and Pilar Domingo, eds., Proclaiming the Revolution:  Bolivia in Comparative Perspective.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 

“‘We Alone Will Rule...’:  Recovering the Range of Anticolonial Projects among Andean Peasants (La Paz, 1740s to 1781).”  Colonial Latin American Review 8 (2):  275-299, 1999.