Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a Bolivian sociologist, historian and activist of Aymara ancestry. She is Emeritus Professor of Sociology of UMSA, Bolivia.

"Rivera Cusicanqui is one of the most original, creative, and synthetic thinkers in this hemisphere. Her work very effectively challenges, as she puts it 'the comfortable dream of liberal society.' A much needed book."—Linda Martín Alcoff, The City University of New York"By adopting the ch'ixi identity, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui opens up possibilities in the inside/outside dichotomy for those who investigate, act, struggle and think, because she problematizes and dismantles this dichotomy. This is a necessary book."—Professor María C. Lugones, Binghamton University

• Prologue - Véronica Gago1 Another Bicentennial2 Sociology of the Image: A View from Colonial Andean History3 Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of DecolonizationBibliography

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a Bolivian sociologist, historian and activist of Aymara ancestry. She is Emeritus Professor of Sociology of UMSA, Bolivia.

"Rivera Cusicanqui is one of the most original, creative, and synthetic thinkers in this hemisphere. Her work very effectively challenges, as she puts it 'the comfortable dream of liberal society.' A much needed book."—Linda Martín Alcoff, The City University of New York"By adopting the ch'ixi identity, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui opens up possibilities in the inside/outside dichotomy for those who investigate, act, struggle and think, because she problematizes and dismantles this dichotomy. This is a necessary book."—Professor María C. Lugones, Binghamton University

• Prologue - Véronica Gago1 Another Bicentennial2 Sociology of the Image: A View from Colonial Andean History3 Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of DecolonizationBibliography

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a Bolivian sociologist, historian and activist of Aymara ancestry. She is Emeritus Professor of Sociology of UMSA, Bolivia.

"Rivera Cusicanqui is one of the most original, creative, and synthetic thinkers in this hemisphere. Her work very effectively challenges, as she puts it 'the comfortable dream of liberal society.' A much needed book."—Linda Martín Alcoff, The City University of New York"By adopting the ch'ixi identity, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui opens up possibilities in the inside/outside dichotomy for those who investigate, act, struggle and think, because she problematizes and dismantles this dichotomy. This is a necessary book."—Professor María C. Lugones, Binghamton University

• Prologue - Véronica Gago1 Another Bicentennial2 Sociology of the Image: A View from Colonial Andean History3 Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of DecolonizationBibliography