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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Bolivia’s Cholitas – From Outcasts to Icons
Pub date: 2025-10-07
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Episode: Bolivia’s Cholitas – From Outcasts to Icons
Pub date: 2025-10-07
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With their pleated skirts and bowler hats the “cholita” women are a common sight in Bolivia’s administrative capital La Paz. They’re often from indigenous Aymara and Quechua cultures. Until recently cholita was used as a derogatory term to talk about their distinctive traditional clothing and they were discriminated against.
Jane Chambers travels to Bolivia to find out how these women are reclaiming their cultural heritage and going from outcasts to icons and what it says about society. Join her to meet the cholita wrestlers, fashion designers and mountaineers changing public opinion.
This episode of The Documentary comes to you from Assignment, investigations and journeys into the heart of global events.
The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC World Service, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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Episode: Bolivia’s Cholitas – From Outcasts to Icons
Pub date: 2025-10-07
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Episode: Bolivia’s Cholitas – From Outcasts to Icons
Pub date: 2025-10-07
Get Podcast Transcript →
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With their pleated skirts and bowler hats the “cholita” women are a common sight in Bolivia’s administrative capital La Paz. They’re often from indigenous Aymara and Quechua cultures. Until recently cholita was used as a derogatory term to talk about their distinctive traditional clothing and they were discriminated against.
Jane Chambers travels to Bolivia to find out how these women are reclaiming their cultural heritage and going from outcasts to icons and what it says about society. Join her to meet the cholita wrestlers, fashion designers and mountaineers changing public opinion.
This episode of The Documentary comes to you from Assignment, investigations and journeys into the heart of global events.
The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC World Service, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.