Nell Haynes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nell Haynes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nell |
| FAMILY NAME | Haynes |
| SIGNATURE | HAYNES N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0401-2848 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Envisioning an Orderly Altiplano
Desde principios de la década de 2000, Bolivia ha experimentado grandes cambios sociales y económicos, en parte relacionados con la presidencia de Evo Morales, el primer jefe de Estado del país que se identifica como indígena. La ciudad de El Alto, a menudo considerada una «ciudad indígena», puede entenderse como un microcosmos para comprender estos cambios más amplios. Los residentes de la ciudad capital de La Paz, que se encuentra en el valle j…
The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
Working for your own folks
This paper uses a comparative ethnographic approach to explore the ways in which social media enables new economic strategies that capitalize on women's traditional forms of reliance within their local communities. We use ethnographic examples from northern Chile, southeast Italy, and south India to show how women are successful in establishing small but prestigious entrepreneurial activities by using social media to respond to local social and c…
Digital Hate
Making migrant identities on social media
The copper mining city of of Alto Hospicio, Chile and GoodPath town, a factory city in China both seem to be archetypal neoliberal cities. They epitomize the circulation of goods, people, and ideas through their export-based economies, large migrant populations, and high penetration of Internet and social media use. Yet, we find that in migrants’ social media use, there are stark contrasts in the significance they place on their movement and the …
Overloaded like a Bolivian truck
Memes have become an important linguistic tool not only for communicating emotions and ideas, but also are integral to constructing the self in online space. This paper concentrates on copper miners in northern Chile and the ways they use memes to make claims related to (hetero)sexuality,mestizaje, and nationalism. With men at the mine during week-long shifts and families in towns several hours away, social media is important for maintaining comm…
Constructing the digital self in the Global South
The papers in this special section examine how people in various contexts of the Global South "construct the self" in online spaces. With examples from Chile, Senegal, and Trinidad, the papers show the wide range of discursive practices, encompassing the textual and the aesthetic, which individuals use to enact gendered and sexual selves online. By privileging gender and sexuality as central components of selfhood, we draw from the longstanding a…
Ethnographic exposure and embodied solidarity
For ten months in 2012, as part of ethnographic research, I wrestled in lucha libre events alongside Bolivian women known as the Cholitas Luchadoras. These wrestlers are costumed as ‘cholas,’ wearing pollera skirts closely associated with market vendors and indigenous women . Audience members debate whether they are authentic representations of indigenous women or essentialized racial characterizations. Regardless, the luchadoras have become popu…
Contemporary Comparative Anthropology - The Why We Post Project
This paper confronts the disparity between a tradition that has defined anthropology as a comparative discipline and the practices which increasingly embrace cultural relativism and the uniqueness of each fieldsite. It suggests that it is possible to resolve this dilemma, through creating a vertical structure that complements the horizontal task of comparison across fieldsites. This vertical structure is composed of different methods of dissemina…
Memories of a Penitent Heart Cecelia Aldarondo, dir. 72 min. English and Spanish with English subtitles. Los Angeles
How the World Changed Social Media
How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and exploring the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce. What is the result of the increased emphasis on visual communication? Are we b…
Why We Post
Kiss with a fist
Lucha libre, a form of exhibition wrestling, has recently gained popularity in Bolivia, thanks to mixed-gender matches featuring traditionally-dressed women known as thecholitas luchadoras. Within their matches, the act of kissing is often used as a form of humiliating an opponent. This article explores the convergence of eroticism and humiliation in these kisses as an entry point for a broader understanding of the deployment of power in the Boli…
Global Cholas
Este artículo examina las mujeres luchadoras en La Paz, Bolivia, y cómo éstas usan creativamente los supuestos por parte de los turistas de ser "tradicionales" y de que están actuando en eventos "exóticos." Desde 2001, mujeres indígenas participan en la lucha libre -una forma de lucha procedente de México y los Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, los viajeros, a menudo, asumen que es una tradición porque las luchadoras se presentan con los trajes de las…
How the World Changed Social Media
How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and exploring the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce. What is the result of the increased emphasis on visual communication? Are we b…
Contemporary Comparative Anthropology - The Why We Post Project
This paper confronts the disparity between a tradition that has defined anthropology as a comparative discipline and the practices which increasingly embrace cultural relativism and the uniqueness of each fieldsite. It suggests that it is possible to resolve this dilemma, through creating a vertical structure that complements the horizontal task of comparison across fieldsites. This vertical structure is composed of different methods of dissemina…
The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
Global Cholas
Este artículo examina las mujeres luchadoras en La Paz, Bolivia, y cómo éstas usan creativamente los supuestos por parte de los turistas de ser "tradicionales" y de que están actuando en eventos "exóticos." Desde 2001, mujeres indígenas participan en la lucha libre -una forma de lucha procedente de México y los Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, los viajeros, a menudo, asumen que es una tradición porque las luchadoras se presentan con los trajes de las…
Kiss with a fist
Lucha libre, a form of exhibition wrestling, has recently gained popularity in Bolivia, thanks to mixed-gender matches featuring traditionally-dressed women known as thecholitas luchadoras. Within their matches, the act of kissing is often used as a form of humiliating an opponent. This article explores the convergence of eroticism and humiliation in these kisses as an entry point for a broader understanding of the deployment of power in the Boli…
Overloaded like a Bolivian truck
Memes have become an important linguistic tool not only for communicating emotions and ideas, but also are integral to constructing the self in online space. This paper concentrates on copper miners in northern Chile and the ways they use memes to make claims related to (hetero)sexuality,mestizaje, and nationalism. With men at the mine during week-long shifts and families in towns several hours away, social media is important for maintaining comm…
Making migrant identities on social media
The copper mining city of of Alto Hospicio, Chile and GoodPath town, a factory city in China both seem to be archetypal neoliberal cities. They epitomize the circulation of goods, people, and ideas through their export-based economies, large migrant populations, and high penetration of Internet and social media use. Yet, we find that in migrants’ social media use, there are stark contrasts in the significance they place on their movement and the …
Ethnographic exposure and embodied solidarity
For ten months in 2012, as part of ethnographic research, I wrestled in lucha libre events alongside Bolivian women known as the Cholitas Luchadoras. These wrestlers are costumed as ‘cholas,’ wearing pollera skirts closely associated with market vendors and indigenous women . Audience members debate whether they are authentic representations of indigenous women or essentialized racial characterizations. Regardless, the luchadoras have become popu…
Working for your own folks
This paper uses a comparative ethnographic approach to explore the ways in which social media enables new economic strategies that capitalize on women's traditional forms of reliance within their local communities. We use ethnographic examples from northern Chile, southeast Italy, and south India to show how women are successful in establishing small but prestigious entrepreneurial activities by using social media to respond to local social and c…
Constructing the digital self in the Global South
The papers in this special section examine how people in various contexts of the Global South "construct the self" in online spaces. With examples from Chile, Senegal, and Trinidad, the papers show the wide range of discursive practices, encompassing the textual and the aesthetic, which individuals use to enact gendered and sexual selves online. By privileging gender and sexuality as central components of selfhood, we draw from the longstanding a…
Why We Post
Global Cholas
Este artículo examina las mujeres luchadoras en La Paz, Bolivia, y cómo éstas usan creativamente los supuestos por parte de los turistas de ser "tradicionales" y de que están actuando en eventos "exóticos." Desde 2001, mujeres indígenas participan en la lucha libre -una forma de lucha procedente de México y los Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, los viajeros, a menudo, asumen que es una tradición porque las luchadoras se presentan con los trajes de las…
How the World Changed Social Media
How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and exploring the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce. What is the result of the increased emphasis on visual communication? Are we b…
Why We Post
Kiss with a fist
Lucha libre, a form of exhibition wrestling, has recently gained popularity in Bolivia, thanks to mixed-gender matches featuring traditionally-dressed women known as thecholitas luchadoras. Within their matches, the act of kissing is often used as a form of humiliating an opponent. This article explores the convergence of eroticism and humiliation in these kisses as an entry point for a broader understanding of the deployment of power in the Boli…
Memories of a Penitent Heart Cecelia Aldarondo, dir. 72 min. English and Spanish with English subtitles. Los Angeles
Contemporary Comparative Anthropology - The Why We Post Project
This paper confronts the disparity between a tradition that has defined anthropology as a comparative discipline and the practices which increasingly embrace cultural relativism and the uniqueness of each fieldsite. It suggests that it is possible to resolve this dilemma, through creating a vertical structure that complements the horizontal task of comparison across fieldsites. This vertical structure is composed of different methods of dissemina…
Making migrant identities on social media
The copper mining city of of Alto Hospicio, Chile and GoodPath town, a factory city in China both seem to be archetypal neoliberal cities. They epitomize the circulation of goods, people, and ideas through their export-based economies, large migrant populations, and high penetration of Internet and social media use. Yet, we find that in migrants’ social media use, there are stark contrasts in the significance they place on their movement and the …
Overloaded like a Bolivian truck
Memes have become an important linguistic tool not only for communicating emotions and ideas, but also are integral to constructing the self in online space. This paper concentrates on copper miners in northern Chile and the ways they use memes to make claims related to (hetero)sexuality,mestizaje, and nationalism. With men at the mine during week-long shifts and families in towns several hours away, social media is important for maintaining comm…
Constructing the digital self in the Global South
The papers in this special section examine how people in various contexts of the Global South "construct the self" in online spaces. With examples from Chile, Senegal, and Trinidad, the papers show the wide range of discursive practices, encompassing the textual and the aesthetic, which individuals use to enact gendered and sexual selves online. By privileging gender and sexuality as central components of selfhood, we draw from the longstanding a…
Ethnographic exposure and embodied solidarity
For ten months in 2012, as part of ethnographic research, I wrestled in lucha libre events alongside Bolivian women known as the Cholitas Luchadoras. These wrestlers are costumed as ‘cholas,’ wearing pollera skirts closely associated with market vendors and indigenous women . Audience members debate whether they are authentic representations of indigenous women or essentialized racial characterizations. Regardless, the luchadoras have become popu…
Digital Hate
The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
Working for your own folks
This paper uses a comparative ethnographic approach to explore the ways in which social media enables new economic strategies that capitalize on women's traditional forms of reliance within their local communities. We use ethnographic examples from northern Chile, southeast Italy, and south India to show how women are successful in establishing small but prestigious entrepreneurial activities by using social media to respond to local social and c…
Envisioning an Orderly Altiplano
Desde principios de la década de 2000, Bolivia ha experimentado grandes cambios sociales y económicos, en parte relacionados con la presidencia de Evo Morales, el primer jefe de Estado del país que se identifica como indígena. La ciudad de El Alto, a menudo considerada una «ciudad indígena», puede entenderse como un microcosmos para comprender estos cambios más amplios. Los residentes de la ciudad capital de La Paz, que se encuentra en el valle j…
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