This article explores how cosmological currents contest and converse with one another to
compose a shifting “cosmoscape” in Kaata, a community in highland Bolivia. Contrasting …

The concept of vivir bien (living well) has become ubiquitous in Bolivian state discourse and
policy since the election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president in 2005. While Bolivia's …

Drawing on fieldwork in Andean Bolivia, this article examines rural urbanisation as a
process of disconnection between people and place impacted by flows of rural to urban …

This article examines the legacy of 1990s' neoliberal decentralization reform in shaping an
indigenous autonomy project in Bolivia. It focuses on the municipality of Charazani, which is …

Chapter 2 focuses on the first major subject of this book, namely Intangible Cultural Heritage
(ICH). It lays the groundwork for some of the broader theoretical themes that run through the …

The Kallawaya are a Bolivian ethnic group well known for ritualism and naturopathy. This
paper explores the 'making'of the Kallawaya as a polity emerging, modifying, and adapting …

The Kallawaya are a Bolivian ethnic group well known for ritualism and naturopathy. This
paper explores the 'making'of the Kallawaya as a polity emerging, modifying, and adapting …

Three years after completing fieldwork for my Ph. D. in social anthropology, I returned to the
Bolivian municipality where I had stayed with families across several different communities …

Abstract In the rural Bolivian Andes, personhood is defined by intersubjective reciprocal
relationships between human and nonhuman beings. This paper examines the role of the …

[spa] Apenas un año después de la entrada en vigor de la Constitución que “refundó” la
República de Bolivia en un Estado Plurinacional (febrero 2009), once municipios rurales de …