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Alcides Arguedas
Alcides Arguedas was a Bolivian writer and historian.
He was born in La Paz, where he studied law and political science. He later studied sociology in Paris and represented his country at several diplomatic missions in both Europe and America. He was also a deputy and a senator, and for a while served as minister of agriculture. He died in Chulumani, department of La Paz.
Arguedas was a keen observer of – and much of his work was inspired by – the indigenous inhabitants of the Andean altiplano, their cultures, and their customs. More controversially, he believed that Bolivia's best ...
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