The loss of a spirit: Metaphor and practice in Aymara decolonization
(2009)- Abstract
- 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.
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- author
- Burman, Anders LU
- publishing date
- 2009
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Indigenous activism, colonialism, decolonization, spirit loss, curing practices, cosmology, Aymara, Bolivia, the Andes
- host publication
- Indigeneity: Culture and Representation
- editor
- Devy, G. N. ; Davis, Geoffrey V. and Chakravarty, Kalyan Kumar
- publisher
- Orient Blackswan
- ISBN
- 9788125036647
- 8125036644
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 5251f60f-b6fd-40ed-a6ef-0ed3ad5aadce (old id 2430795)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-04 12:00:29
- date last changed
- 2018-11-21 21:08:29
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