%0 Book Section %9 OS CH : Chapitres d'ouvrages scientifiques %A Absi, Pascale %T The future of an institution from the past : accommodating regulationism in Bolivia, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century %B Selling sex in the city : a global history of prostitution, 1600s-2000s %C [s.l.] %D 2017 %E Rodríguez García, M. %E Van Voss, L.H. %E Van Nederveen Meerkerk, E. %L fdi:010073922 %G ENG %I Brill %@ 978-90-04-34625-3 %K ANTHROPOLOGIE SOCIALE ; PROSTITUTION ; CONTROLE SOCIAL ; HISTOIRE ; FEMME ; MIGRATION ; VILLE %K ETHNOGRAPHIE %K BOLIVIE ; POTOSI %N 31 %P 466-489 %R 10.1163/9789004346253_019 %U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010073922 %> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/depot/2018-11-26/010073922.pdf %W Horizon (IRD) %X 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,... %S Studies in Global Social History %$ 106GESOC2 ; 112HISTO