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The loss of a spirit: Metaphor and practice in Aymara decolonization

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Author

  • Anders Burman

Editor

  • 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.

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Publication/Series

Indigeneity: Culture and Representation

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Orient Blackswan

Topic

  • Social and Economic Geography

Keywords

  • Indigenous activism
  • colonialism
  • decolonization
  • spirit loss
  • curing practices
  • cosmology
  • Aymara
  • Bolivia
  • the Andes

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9788125036647
  • ISBN: 8125036644