The loss of a spirit: Metaphor and practice in Aymara decolonization
Författare
Redaktör
- G. N. Devy
- Geoffrey V. Davis
- Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty
Summary, in English
This paper explores the bearing had by Aymara notions of spirit loss on contemporary indigenous discourses of colonialism and decolonization and discusses the dynamics of cross-fertilization between “traditional” curing practices and cosmology on the one hand and indigenous ethnopolitical activism and discourse on the other.
Publiceringsår
2009
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Indigeneity: Culture and Representation
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Förlag
Orient Blackswan
Ämne
- Social and Economic Geography
Nyckelord
- Indigenous activism
- colonialism
- decolonization
- spirit loss
- curing practices
- cosmology
- Aymara
- Bolivia
- the Andes
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 9788125036647
- ISBN: 8125036644