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

Anders Burman

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

Anders Burman

University of Gothenburg

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Indigeneity: Culture and Representation
Editors	G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis, Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty
Publisher	Orient Blackswan
ISBN (Print)	9788125036647, 8125036644
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes

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Social and Economic Geography

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

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