A Canessa
Biographic Data
| ID | 19969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Canessa |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Canessa |
| SIGNATURE | CANESSA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1315-9072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 362 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Chronos and Kairos in colonial Gibraltar: Remembering and forgetting on the British territory
Learning ignorance and illiteracy through education: Reflections on highland Bolivia
Literacy is clearly more than an ability to read or write in one language, and today we talk of multiple ‘literacies’. In each case, literacy represents education, knowledge and particularly the ability to get by competently in the world we inhabit; in short, it is about being a full citizen. This article looks at literacy, knowledge and schooling in a highland Aymara village in Bolivia, not in terms of what is being learned but rather in terms o…
Ethnic elder poverty: Miao household livelihoods and elderly self-sufficiency practices in Midwest China
Within the existing literature on livelihoods, there is a paucity of research examining the livelihood of the elderly from ethnic communities, and of the few studies on elderly livelihoods, scholars tend to focus on their agricultural labor engagement and ignore other forms of activity. In this study, we investigate the elderly livelihood choices and the multiple survival practices in a Miao town in China's Midwest, which was chosen as the first …
The Strategic Mobilisation of the Border in Gibraltar: The Postcolonial (Re)Production of Privilege and Exclusion
The border separating/unifying Gibraltar with Spain is reproduced in public discourse as a threat and an obstacle to the normalisation of political life in the small enclave. Yet, an in-depth socio-historical analysis of local cross-border relations over the 20th century, shows how the Gibraltarian national identity and local government originate from the border rather than in opposition to it. The fencing of the frontier imposed by the Franco’s …
Making Persons, Marking Difference
Procreation beliefs are frequently highly illuminating in understanding how relations between persons are conceived. This chapter examines how procreation beliefs illuminate the understanding of ethnic and racial difference in the central Andes of South America. Thus procreation beliefs, beliefs relating to how persons are created, illuminate greatly the difference between Indians and non-Indians for the people of Pocobaya and other similar group…
Indigenous Conflict in Bolivia Explored through an African Lens: Towards a Comparative Analysis of Indigeneity
Since Evo Morales was first elected President of Bolivia in 2005, indigeneity has moved from being a language of protest to a language of governance with concomitant profound changes in how indigeneity is imagined and mobilized. However, one of the striking features of Morales's presidency is his administration's open conflict with various indigenous groups. Although a number of scholars have addressed these issues, they have largely focused on t…
Fixed Lines, Permanent Transitions. International Borders, Cross-Border Communities and the Transforming Experience of Otherness
Beyond their most physical manifestations as fences, gates and border guards, international borders are social constructs experienced by individuals as they traverse them. Anchored on the ground as relatively fixed lines, international borders transform through time as the crossing is alternatively allowed or hindered depending on changing relations between countries. This is especially true given the social, cultural, and economic structures gen…
Methods really do matter: A response to Marisol de la Cadena
Comment on de la Cadena, Marisol. 2015. Earth beings: Ecologies of practice across Andean worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Bearing witness: Testimonies, translations, and ontologies in the Andes
Comment on de la Cadena, Marisol. 2015. Earth beings: Ecologies of practice across Andean worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Gibraltarian Oral Histories: Walking the Line Between Critical Distance and Subjectivity
This essay engages with the position of the researcher when carrying out field work on a subject close to home. If on the one hand familial relationships and intimate connections to the subject, in this case Gibraltar, are important determinants in understanding and analysing the oral histories that will be collected during the lifetime of the project, this proximity also raises questions regarding subjectivity and critical distance. This physica…
El indio desde adentro, el indio desde afuera: Ciudadanía, Raza Y Sexo en Una Comunidad Boliviana
En este artículo exploro las relaciones entre ciudadanía,raza y sexo en la comunidad de Pocobaya, aldeaandina de Bolivia, tomando en cuenta diversos aspectosde las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres. En relacióncon las imágenes sobre lo hispánico y lo indio, seanalizan las representaciones hegemónicas de género,el papel de la escolarización, y la feminización de loindígena en general y de los varones en particular comojustificación de la dominaci…
El pasado en el presente: Explorando historias indígenas en Bolivia
In this article I analyse the ways in which the inhabitants of an Aymara-speaking village understand history and their place within it and explores the profound differences between their historical consciousness and that of mainstream indigenous expression. This raises questions about how people relate to the past, the importance of the Conquest for indigenous peoples, and the consecuences for contemporary indigenous movements of the existence of…
Recordando a Benjamin Kohl
this is a literary essay and therefore does not have an abstract
Conflict, claim and contradiction in the new 'indigenous' state of Bolivia
Recent conflict between indigenous people and a self-styled indigenous state in Bolivia has brought to the fore some of the paradoxes and contradictions within the concept of indigeneity itself. The contemporary politics of state sponsored indigeneity in Bolivia has as much capacity to create new inequalities as it does to address old ones and there is a conceptual deficit in understanding contemporary indigenous rights claims, in particular as t…
Remembering Benjamin Kohl
"Remembering Benjamin Kohl." NACLA Report on the Americas, 46(3), pp. 1–2 Additional informationNotes on contributorsNicole FabricantNicole Fabricant is an assistant professor of anthropology at Towson University. She is author of Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggles over Land (UNC Press, 2012).Andrew CanessaDepartment of Sociology at the University of Essex in England. He is author of Intimate Indigeneities: Race…
Gender, Indigeneity, and the Performance of Authenticity in Latin American Tourism
De la arqueología a la autonomía: El uso de restos precolombinos para forjar una nueva relación con el Estado en Bolivia
La eflorescencia actual de lo indígena en Bolivia y en otras partes ha producido varios ejemplos en donde la gente está revalorizando su relación con el pasado. Es erróneo, sin embargo, ver estos procesos en términos sencillos de un redescubrimiento de unas continuidades con el pasado. Siguiendo a Lazzari1,vemos la importancia de examinar los modos novedosos y dinámicos en los cuales la gente trata a los artefactos para construir un presente con …
Customizing Indigeneity: Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru by Shane Greene
New Indigenous Citizenship in Bolivia: Challenging the Liberal Model of the State and its Subjects
At the beginning of the 20th century, indigenous identities seemed atavistic and doomed. By its close, indigenous politics were proving to be much more dynamic and successful than other progressive political movements. This article explores the ways in which indigenous groups are engaging in novel ways with the nation-state. What is at play here is a series of articulations of the ways in which the state relates to citizens and vice versa in Boli…
Dreaming of Fathers: Fausto Reinaga and Indigenous Masculinism
Fausto Reinaga, writing in the 1950s and 1960s, is today celebrated as Bolivia's greatest indigenous intellectual by people from across the indigenous political spectrum. Few scholars have considered the role of gender in his work. I explore the ways in which Reinaga's project is explicitly the redemption of the Indian man and the ways in which he shows considerable antipathy towards mestiza women and profound ambivalence towards Indian women. De…
Forgetting the Revolution and Remembering the War: Memory and Violence in Highland Bolivia
Numerous commentators have referred to the process which brought newly elected indigenous president Evo Morales to power as a revolution. This social revolution's primary referent is the Bolivian Revolution of 1952 which freed indians from their serf-like status and overthrew the creole oligarchy. The paper explores the memories and stories of the Aymara-speaking people of Pocobaya and neighbouring communities about the mid twentieth-century even…
Natives Making Nation: Gender, Indigeneity, and the State in the Andes
In Bolivia today, the ability to speak an indigenous language is highly valued among educated urbanites as a useful job skill, but a rural person who speaks a native language is branded with lower social status. Likewise, chewing coca in the countryside spells "inferior indian," but in La Paz jazz bars it's decidedly cool. In the Andes and elsewhere, the commodification of indianness has impacted urban lifestyles as people co-opt indigenous cultu…
Sex And The Citizen: Barbies And Beauty Queens In The Age Of Evo Morales1
The Past is Not Another Country: Exploring Indigenous Histories in Bolivia
The concept of indigeneity is founded on an historical relation: my people were here before yours and are therefore legitimate occupiers of this land. This aspect of indigeneity, and its concomitant claim to justice, is most clearly articulated in the indigenous politics of postcolonial nations and the rhetoric of indigenous leaders. The discourses of politicians who invoke five centuries of oppression are frequently heard and easily accessible b…
"Commentary on "Why Would You Marry a Serrana
Conflict, claim and contradiction in the new 'indigenous' state of Bolivia
Recent conflict between indigenous people and a self-styled indigenous state in Bolivia has brought to the fore some of the paradoxes and contradictions within the concept of indigeneity itself. The contemporary politics of state sponsored indigeneity in Bolivia has as much capacity to create new inequalities as it does to address old ones and there is a conceptual deficit in understanding contemporary indigenous rights claims, in particular as t…
Todos somos indígenas: Towards a New Language of National Political Identity
One of the most striking aspects of 'Red October' was the central role played by indigenous groups and their leaders who were largely able to set the agenda of protest. This paper explores how the concept of indigeneity as a mobilising concept has moved from the periphery of the political arena to centre stage. Two indigenous leaders played significant roles: whereas the political rhetoric of Felipe Quispe is exclusionary and particularistic, Evo…
Sex And The Citizen: Barbies And Beauty Queens In The Age Of Evo Morales1
Contesting Hybridity: Evangelistas and Kataristas in Highland Bolivia
Two of the most striking aspects of social change in recent decades in Latin America have been the rise of indigenist movements and the spread of evangelical Protestantism. To date they have been analysed separately, but this article shows that a comparison of the two in the context of Bolivia can prove highly productive. Although in many respects evangelismo and katarismo are diametrically opposed, there are some striking similarities. They draw…
New Indigenous Citizenship in Bolivia: Challenging the Liberal Model of the State and its Subjects
At the beginning of the 20th century, indigenous identities seemed atavistic and doomed. By its close, indigenous politics were proving to be much more dynamic and successful than other progressive political movements. This article explores the ways in which indigenous groups are engaging in novel ways with the nation-state. What is at play here is a series of articulations of the ways in which the state relates to citizens and vice versa in Boli…
Indigenous Conflict in Bolivia Explored through an African Lens: Towards a Comparative Analysis of Indigeneity
Since Evo Morales was first elected President of Bolivia in 2005, indigeneity has moved from being a language of protest to a language of governance with concomitant profound changes in how indigeneity is imagined and mobilized. However, one of the striking features of Morales's presidency is his administration's open conflict with various indigenous groups. Although a number of scholars have addressed these issues, they have largely focused on t…
Fear and loathing on the kharisiri trail: Alterity and identity in the Andes
The well-documented figure of the Andean kharisiri (alternatively ñakaq, pishtaco) who steals the fat of Indians and sells it to bishops or hospitals has generally been understood in terms of the fear Indians have of outsiders and anxiety about modernity. As such there are similarities with the wider phenomena of organ-stealers around the world. This article, however, examines the cultural specificities of kharisiri beliefs and outlines important…
Procreation, Personhood and ethnic difference in Highland Bolivia
Academic debates on the difference between 'indians' and 'non-indians' in highland Latin America typically revolve around issues of race, ethnicity and class understood from an etic perspective. Although there may be a consensus as to where the boundary between one status and the other lies, how this boundary is understood varies dramatically between scholars, as well as between actors on each side of the boundary. This paper examines the identit…
The Past is Not Another Country: Exploring Indigenous Histories in Bolivia
The concept of indigeneity is founded on an historical relation: my people were here before yours and are therefore legitimate occupiers of this land. This aspect of indigeneity, and its concomitant claim to justice, is most clearly articulated in the indigenous politics of postcolonial nations and the rhetoric of indigenous leaders. The discourses of politicians who invoke five centuries of oppression are frequently heard and easily accessible b…
Reproducing racism: Schooling and race in highland Bolivia
Bolivia is one of the few Latin American nations with a majority indian population. Strong assimilationist policies over the past fifty years have meant indians have been discriminated against in many areas of social life. Rural schools have been a principal tool in assimilation. Over the past decade political and education reform have shifted policy away from an assimilationist model to a multicultural one. Of great significance is the requireme…
The school in the Quechua and Aymara communities of highland Bolivia
Forgetting the Revolution and Remembering the War: Memory and Violence in Highland Bolivia
Numerous commentators have referred to the process which brought newly elected indigenous president Evo Morales to power as a revolution. This social revolution's primary referent is the Bolivian Revolution of 1952 which freed indians from their serf-like status and overthrew the creole oligarchy. The paper explores the memories and stories of the Aymara-speaking people of Pocobaya and neighbouring communities about the mid twentieth-century even…
Fixed Lines, Permanent Transitions. International Borders, Cross-Border Communities and the Transforming Experience of Otherness
Beyond their most physical manifestations as fences, gates and border guards, international borders are social constructs experienced by individuals as they traverse them. Anchored on the ground as relatively fixed lines, international borders transform through time as the crossing is alternatively allowed or hindered depending on changing relations between countries. This is especially true given the social, cultural, and economic structures gen…
Gender, Indigeneity, and the Performance of Authenticity in Latin American Tourism
Dreaming of Fathers: Fausto Reinaga and Indigenous Masculinism
Fausto Reinaga, writing in the 1950s and 1960s, is today celebrated as Bolivia's greatest indigenous intellectual by people from across the indigenous political spectrum. Few scholars have considered the role of gender in his work. I explore the ways in which Reinaga's project is explicitly the redemption of the Indian man and the ways in which he shows considerable antipathy towards mestiza women and profound ambivalence towards Indian women. De…
Methods really do matter: A response to Marisol de la Cadena
Comment on de la Cadena, Marisol. 2015. Earth beings: Ecologies of practice across Andean worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Bearing witness: Testimonies, translations, and ontologies in the Andes
Comment on de la Cadena, Marisol. 2015. Earth beings: Ecologies of practice across Andean worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Customizing Indigeneity: Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru by Shane Greene
The school in the Quechua and Aymara communities of highland Bolivia
Religious Regimes in Peru: A Reply
Religious regimes in Peru: A reply
Evangelical Protestantism in the Northern Highlands of Bolivia
In recent years Protestantism has been spreading rapidly over much of Latin America (Stoll, 1990; Martin, 1990) and a number of writers have begun to examine the nature and spread of Protestantism in several countries in the region (D'Epinay, 1969; Muratorio, 1989, Alves, 1979, Strobele-Gregor, 1989, Lehmann, 1996). With the exception of Strobele Gregor's study of Seventh Day Adventists (1992, 1989) little scholarly attention has been paid to the…
Procreation, Personhood and ethnic difference in Highland Bolivia
Academic debates on the difference between 'indians' and 'non-indians' in highland Latin America typically revolve around issues of race, ethnicity and class understood from an etic perspective. Although there may be a consensus as to where the boundary between one status and the other lies, how this boundary is understood varies dramatically between scholars, as well as between actors on each side of the boundary. This paper examines the identit…
Contesting Hybridity: Evangelistas and Kataristas in Highland Bolivia
Two of the most striking aspects of social change in recent decades in Latin America have been the rise of indigenist movements and the spread of evangelical Protestantism. To date they have been analysed separately, but this article shows that a comparison of the two in the context of Bolivia can prove highly productive. Although in many respects evangelismo and katarismo are diametrically opposed, there are some striking similarities. They draw…
Fear and loathing on the kharisiri trail: Alterity and identity in the Andes
The well-documented figure of the Andean kharisiri (alternatively ñakaq, pishtaco) who steals the fat of Indians and sells it to bishops or hospitals has generally been understood in terms of the fear Indians have of outsiders and anxiety about modernity. As such there are similarities with the wider phenomena of organ-stealers around the world. This article, however, examines the cultural specificities of kharisiri beliefs and outlines important…
Reproducing racism: Schooling and race in highland Bolivia
Bolivia is one of the few Latin American nations with a majority indian population. Strong assimilationist policies over the past fifty years have meant indians have been discriminated against in many areas of social life. Rural schools have been a principal tool in assimilation. Over the past decade political and education reform have shifted policy away from an assimilationist model to a multicultural one. Of great significance is the requireme…
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology: Who is Indigenous
Natives Making Nation: Gender, Indigeneity, and the State in the Andes
Todos somos indígenas: Towards a New Language of National Political Identity
One of the most striking aspects of 'Red October' was the central role played by indigenous groups and their leaders who were largely able to set the agenda of protest. This paper explores how the concept of indigeneity as a mobilising concept has moved from the periphery of the political arena to centre stage. Two indigenous leaders played significant roles: whereas the political rhetoric of Felipe Quispe is exclusionary and particularistic, Evo…
"Commentary on "Why Would You Marry a Serrana
"Commentary on "Why Would You Marry a Serrana
Mary, Mother and Warrior: The Virgin in Spain and the Americas - Edited by Linda B. Hall
Natives Making Nation: Gender, Indigeneity, and the State in the Andes
In Bolivia today, the ability to speak an indigenous language is highly valued among educated urbanites as a useful job skill, but a rural person who speaks a native language is branded with lower social status. Likewise, chewing coca in the countryside spells "inferior indian," but in La Paz jazz bars it's decidedly cool. In the Andes and elsewhere, the commodification of indianness has impacted urban lifestyles as people co-opt indigenous cultu…
Sex And The Citizen: Barbies And Beauty Queens In The Age Of Evo Morales1
The Past is Not Another Country: Exploring Indigenous Histories in Bolivia
The concept of indigeneity is founded on an historical relation: my people were here before yours and are therefore legitimate occupiers of this land. This aspect of indigeneity, and its concomitant claim to justice, is most clearly articulated in the indigenous politics of postcolonial nations and the rhetoric of indigenous leaders. The discourses of politicians who invoke five centuries of oppression are frequently heard and easily accessible b…
Forgetting the Revolution and Remembering the War: Memory and Violence in Highland Bolivia
Numerous commentators have referred to the process which brought newly elected indigenous president Evo Morales to power as a revolution. This social revolution's primary referent is the Bolivian Revolution of 1952 which freed indians from their serf-like status and overthrew the creole oligarchy. The paper explores the memories and stories of the Aymara-speaking people of Pocobaya and neighbouring communities about the mid twentieth-century even…
Dreaming of Fathers: Fausto Reinaga and Indigenous Masculinism
Fausto Reinaga, writing in the 1950s and 1960s, is today celebrated as Bolivia's greatest indigenous intellectual by people from across the indigenous political spectrum. Few scholars have considered the role of gender in his work. I explore the ways in which Reinaga's project is explicitly the redemption of the Indian man and the ways in which he shows considerable antipathy towards mestiza women and profound ambivalence towards Indian women. De…
Gender, Indigeneity, and the Performance of Authenticity in Latin American Tourism
De la arqueología a la autonomía: El uso de restos precolombinos para forjar una nueva relación con el Estado en Bolivia
La eflorescencia actual de lo indígena en Bolivia y en otras partes ha producido varios ejemplos en donde la gente está revalorizando su relación con el pasado. Es erróneo, sin embargo, ver estos procesos en términos sencillos de un redescubrimiento de unas continuidades con el pasado. Siguiendo a Lazzari1,vemos la importancia de examinar los modos novedosos y dinámicos en los cuales la gente trata a los artefactos para construir un presente con …
Customizing Indigeneity: Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru by Shane Greene
New Indigenous Citizenship in Bolivia: Challenging the Liberal Model of the State and its Subjects
At the beginning of the 20th century, indigenous identities seemed atavistic and doomed. By its close, indigenous politics were proving to be much more dynamic and successful than other progressive political movements. This article explores the ways in which indigenous groups are engaging in novel ways with the nation-state. What is at play here is a series of articulations of the ways in which the state relates to citizens and vice versa in Boli…
Remembering Benjamin Kohl
"Remembering Benjamin Kohl." NACLA Report on the Americas, 46(3), pp. 1–2 Additional informationNotes on contributorsNicole FabricantNicole Fabricant is an assistant professor of anthropology at Towson University. She is author of Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggles over Land (UNC Press, 2012).Andrew CanessaDepartment of Sociology at the University of Essex in England. He is author of Intimate Indigeneities: Race…
Recordando a Benjamin Kohl
this is a literary essay and therefore does not have an abstract
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (22 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (13 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (11 works) · History (10 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Anthropology (8 works)