Del saber tradicional a la constitución de un «habitus desarrollista» en el Norte Potosí

Abstract

The region of Northern Potosi in Bolivia has the particularity of being a mining region with a high indigenous population, where several distinct ideologies and development processes have intersected. From the analysis of the concepts of knowledge and development in the indigenous world we will show how the influence of NGOs and leftist political parties has led to the implantation of a “habitus developmentalist” within communities. This habitus has its origin in the “field of development” born in the area through the many projects of this nature and training centers for indigenous peasant leaders, who bore this new knowledge and vision of development in the communities where they intermixed with traditional collective visions.