Kallawaya, Inc. - the making of the Kallawaya (1532-2008): a historical, relational, and comparative approach

Fischer, Eva (2023). Kallawaya, Inc. - the making of the Kallawaya (1532-2008): a historical, relational, and comparative approach. Estudios Atacameños, 69, pp. 1-39. Universidad Católica del Norte 10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2023-0005

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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 over time according to its political and economic needs, at the intersection of local conditions and of global developments. The case of the Kallawaya shows how processes of ethnicization unfold through the interplay of primordialist and of instrumentalist logics. An important vehicle for ethnicization is resilience as expressed by the cultural memory.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology

UniBE Contributor:

Fischer, Eva

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology

ISSN:

0718-1043

Publisher:

Universidad Católica del Norte

Language:

English

Submitter:

Eva Fischer

Date Deposited:

18 Jul 2023 14:10

Last Modified:

18 Jul 2023 14:10

Publisher DOI:

10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2023-0005

Uncontrolled Keywords:

naturopathy, cultural memory, memory figures, ethnicization naturopatía, memoria cultural, figuras de memoria, etnicización

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/183121

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/183121

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