Maize-beer, gossip, and slander: female tavern proprietors and urban, ethnic cultural elaboration in Bolivia, 1870-1930.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: December 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

This article analyzes the ways in which chicheras, or sellers of maize beer, integrated themselves into urban chola (mixed ethnic identity) neighborhoods in Sucre, Bolivia in the years 1870-1930, the years in which Bolivia urbanized, modernized, and formed a national identity. The article utilizes one of the only sources available where one can find the actual words of early twentieth-century cholas and chicheras, slander suits. Chicheras, more than any other cholas, became involved in the numerous slander suits that took place in the local courts in Sucre. Chiceras' ambivalent social ...

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