I will fish my rights

This publication builds on extensive anthropological fieldwork in a small rural Aymara community in the high plateau of Bolivia. It investigates the significance that indigenous peasant women attribute to property rights to land and the influence that land rights have on their everyday life and possibilities of action within the family, community, and State. It contributes to contemporary human rights debates with empirical insight on pertinent questions such as; what meaning do indigenous peasant women themselves attribute to land rights; how do they experience practices of exclusion from property rights to land; and what do such rights mean within the broader contexts of their everyday life?