The future of an institution from the past : accommodating regulationism in Bolivia, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century Selling sex in the city : a global history of prostitution, 1600s-2000s /Absi, Pascale ANTHROPOLOGIE SOCIALE PROSTITUTION CONTROLE SOCIAL HISTOIRE FEMME MIGRATION VILLE ETHNOGRAPHIE This article uses the present tense to discuss an institution from the past: the regulationist approach to prostitution developed in France in the nineteenth century. While this system has gradually disappeared in Europe, its survival in present-day Bolivia means that the similarities and ruptures between current and past methods used in the public and social management of prostitution can be analysed. Most of the research was carried out in Potosí, a mining city founded by the Spanish conquistadores in the heart of the Bolivian Andes. With a population of 170,000 (2012 census), Potosí is a large city in Bolivian terms,... Brill Rodríguez García, M. (ed.) Van Voss, L.H. (ed.) Van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. (ed.) 2017 text https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010073922 fdi:010073922 Absi Pascale, . The future of an institution from the past : accommodating regulationism in Bolivia, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. In : Rodríguez García M. (ed.), Van Voss L.H. (ed.), Van Nederveen Meerkerk E. (ed.), . Selling sex in the city : a global history of prostitution, 1600s-2000s Brill, ; 31). 2017, 466-489 EN BOLIVIE POTOSI