Andrew Orta
Biographic Data
| ID | 74770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Orta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Orta |
| SIGNATURE | ORTA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-9100-5052 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Dusty Signs and Roots of Faith: The Limits of Christian Meaning in Highland Bolivia
Indigenous Christianities: Commensuration, (De)Colonization, and Cultural Production in Latin America
From the earliest moments of the colonial encounter, indigenous Christianity has been an object of scrutiny. This chapter examines indigenous Christianity in its connection with a founding problem of Latin American studies: the asymmetrical encounter of indigenous communities with external powers and the resulting complex of social, political, and economic entanglements is the origin story of the project. The discussion is framed around two corre…
Reiner Tom Zuidema (1927-2016)
On March 2, 2016, the cultural anthropologist and ethnohistorian of the Andes Reiner Tom Zuidema passed away in his home in Urbana, Illinois, at the age of 88. Descended on his father's side from a family of Frisian Mennonite farmers, Zuidema was raised in the Dutch city of Haarlem, where, toward the end of World War II, he spent many months in hiding from German Nazi occupation military recruiters. A talented violinist, Zuidema played in the Dut…
Commentary: Response to Karen Ho on cultures of capitalism, contexts of capitalism
The anthropology of capitalism requires ethnographic attention to capitalism at key sites of its production, as well as analytic recognition of the compulsive force of capitalism as it is produced and reproduced through a multitude of connected practices. This reply to Karen Ho's commentary on my AE article “Managing the Margins” addresses the tensions between approaching capitalism as context and as an emergent cultural production, and the chall…
Forged Communities and Vulgar Citizens: Autonomy and its Límites in Semineoliberal Bolivia
Este artículo examina el impacto de los procesos de descentralización política sobre comunidades indígenas del altiplano boliviano. Enfatizando la creación de nuevos municipios rurales, describo las maneras en que las nuevas concepciones y prácticas de la vida cívica impactan formas locales de producción social, las cuales hace años han entretejido las comunidades indígenas dentro de la nación y más allá de la misma. Examino estas experiencias de…
Managing the margins: "MBA training, international business, and "the value chain of culture
Global capitalism requires a world of manageable differences. U.S. business schools train MBA students in the reckoning of international space as a field of risk and opportunity. Focusing particularly on the short-term study-abroad trips that have become a staple of MBA training in the past decade, I examine the role of international knowledge and experience as a constitutive part of the managerial selves contemporary capitalism is explicitly tho…
New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia. By Bret Gustafson, Durham
The Anthropology of Christianity. Fenella Cannell
Catechizing Culture: Missionaries Aymara, and the "New Evangelization."
Nearly five centuries after the first wave of Catholic missionaries arrived in the New World to spread their Christian message, contemporary religious workers in the Bolivian highlands have begun to encourage Aymara Indians to return to traditional ritual practices. All but eradicated after hundreds of years of missionization, the old ways are now viewed as local cultural expressions of Christian values. In order to become more Christian, the Aym…
Catechizing Culture: Missionaries, Aymara, and the "New Evangelization"
Nearly five centuries after the first wave of Catholic missionaries arrived in the New World to spread their Christian message, contemporary religious workers in the Bolivian highlands have begun to encourage Aymara Indians to return to traditional ritual practices. All but eradicated after hundreds of years of missionization, the "old ways" are now viewed as local cultural expressions of Christian values. In order to become more Christian, the A…
The Promise of Particularism and the Theology of Culture: "Limits and Lessons of "Neo-Boasianism
This article compares the status of "culture" as a politically engaged concept in Franz Boas's time and in our own time. Taking a Boasian approach to "neo-Boasianism," I examine the limits of this comparability in order to shed light on the nature of public culture-talk today and to identify dimensions of the Boasian concept of "culture" particularly relevant to a contemporary anthropology
Living the Past Another Way: Reinstrumentalized Missionary Selves in Aymara Mission Fields
This article examines Catholic missionaries in the Bolivian highlands. I focus on missionary conversion accounts-narratives of self-transformation in the face of their local mission fields-taking these as an analytic opportunity to address the positions of such global agents as component subjects of Aymara locality. Negotiating preexisting expectations of Catholicism and its representatives as necessary for the reproduction of local Aymara social…
Burying the Past: Locality, Lived History, and Death in an Aymara Ritual of Remembrance
Remembering the Ayllu, Remaking the Nation: Indigenous Scholarship and Activism in the Bolivian Andes
Remembering the Ayllu, Remaking the Nation: Indigenous Scholarship and Activism in the Bolivian Andes
Syncretic Subjects and Body Politics: Doubleness, Personhood, and Aymara Catechists
Missionaries describe the Aymara catechists with whom they work as "divided in two"-part "Aymara" and part "Christian." This characterization of partial cultural merging links a dualizing paradigm of embodiment with a dualizing approach to conjunctural settings familiar from much of the Andean ethnographic literature and casts Aymara as passive indices of colonial and postcolonial history. Drawing upon contrasting approaches to embodiment and ide…
Converting Difference: Metaculture, Missionaries, and the Politics of Locality
Andrew Orta, Converting Difference: Metaculture, Missionaries, and the Politics of Locality, Ethnology, Vol. 37, No. 2, Special Issue: Relocating Bolivia: Popular Political Perspectives (Spring, 1998), pp. 165-185
Iconoclasm and History: Remembering the Via Crucis in a Nicaraguan comunidad eclesial de base
This paper is a consideration of religious ritual as historical practice, and of the cultural mediation of the valuation and revaluation of signs in history. Specifically I am concerned with christological imagery as deployed in the performance of a Via Crucis Nicaraguenese, or "Stations of the Cross," conducted by a comunidad eclesial de base (CEB) in Managua, Nicaragua in 1976, and 1977. The 'data' include texts and illustrations employed durin…
Syncretic Subjects and Body Politics: Doubleness, Personhood, and Aymara Catechists
Missionaries describe the Aymara catechists with whom they work as "divided in two"-part "Aymara" and part "Christian." This characterization of partial cultural merging links a dualizing paradigm of embodiment with a dualizing approach to conjunctural settings familiar from much of the Andean ethnographic literature and casts Aymara as passive indices of colonial and postcolonial history. Drawing upon contrasting approaches to embodiment and ide…
Forged Communities and Vulgar Citizens: Autonomy and its Límites in Semineoliberal Bolivia
Este artículo examina el impacto de los procesos de descentralización política sobre comunidades indígenas del altiplano boliviano. Enfatizando la creación de nuevos municipios rurales, describo las maneras en que las nuevas concepciones y prácticas de la vida cívica impactan formas locales de producción social, las cuales hace años han entretejido las comunidades indígenas dentro de la nación y más allá de la misma. Examino estas experiencias de…
Managing the margins: "MBA training, international business, and "the value chain of culture
Global capitalism requires a world of manageable differences. U.S. business schools train MBA students in the reckoning of international space as a field of risk and opportunity. Focusing particularly on the short-term study-abroad trips that have become a staple of MBA training in the past decade, I examine the role of international knowledge and experience as a constitutive part of the managerial selves contemporary capitalism is explicitly tho…
The Promise of Particularism and the Theology of Culture: "Limits and Lessons of "Neo-Boasianism
This article compares the status of "culture" as a politically engaged concept in Franz Boas's time and in our own time. Taking a Boasian approach to "neo-Boasianism," I examine the limits of this comparability in order to shed light on the nature of public culture-talk today and to identify dimensions of the Boasian concept of "culture" particularly relevant to a contemporary anthropology
Burying the Past: Locality, Lived History, and Death in an Aymara Ritual of Remembrance
Converting Difference: Metaculture, Missionaries, and the Politics of Locality
Andrew Orta, Converting Difference: Metaculture, Missionaries, and the Politics of Locality, Ethnology, Vol. 37, No. 2, Special Issue: Relocating Bolivia: Popular Political Perspectives (Spring, 1998), pp. 165-185
Living the Past Another Way: Reinstrumentalized Missionary Selves in Aymara Mission Fields
This article examines Catholic missionaries in the Bolivian highlands. I focus on missionary conversion accounts-narratives of self-transformation in the face of their local mission fields-taking these as an analytic opportunity to address the positions of such global agents as component subjects of Aymara locality. Negotiating preexisting expectations of Catholicism and its representatives as necessary for the reproduction of local Aymara social…
Commentary: Response to Karen Ho on cultures of capitalism, contexts of capitalism
The anthropology of capitalism requires ethnographic attention to capitalism at key sites of its production, as well as analytic recognition of the compulsive force of capitalism as it is produced and reproduced through a multitude of connected practices. This reply to Karen Ho's commentary on my AE article “Managing the Margins” addresses the tensions between approaching capitalism as context and as an emergent cultural production, and the chall…
Iconoclasm and History: Remembering the Via Crucis in a Nicaraguan comunidad eclesial de base
This paper is a consideration of religious ritual as historical practice, and of the cultural mediation of the valuation and revaluation of signs in history. Specifically I am concerned with christological imagery as deployed in the performance of a Via Crucis Nicaraguenese, or "Stations of the Cross," conducted by a comunidad eclesial de base (CEB) in Managua, Nicaragua in 1976, and 1977. The 'data' include texts and illustrations employed durin…
Converting Difference: Metaculture, Missionaries, and the Politics of Locality
Andrew Orta, Converting Difference: Metaculture, Missionaries, and the Politics of Locality, Ethnology, Vol. 37, No. 2, Special Issue: Relocating Bolivia: Popular Political Perspectives (Spring, 1998), pp. 165-185
Syncretic Subjects and Body Politics: Doubleness, Personhood, and Aymara Catechists
Missionaries describe the Aymara catechists with whom they work as "divided in two"-part "Aymara" and part "Christian." This characterization of partial cultural merging links a dualizing paradigm of embodiment with a dualizing approach to conjunctural settings familiar from much of the Andean ethnographic literature and casts Aymara as passive indices of colonial and postcolonial history. Drawing upon contrasting approaches to embodiment and ide…
Remembering the Ayllu, Remaking the Nation: Indigenous Scholarship and Activism in the Bolivian Andes
Remembering the Ayllu, Remaking the Nation: Indigenous Scholarship and Activism in the Bolivian Andes
Living the Past Another Way: Reinstrumentalized Missionary Selves in Aymara Mission Fields
This article examines Catholic missionaries in the Bolivian highlands. I focus on missionary conversion accounts-narratives of self-transformation in the face of their local mission fields-taking these as an analytic opportunity to address the positions of such global agents as component subjects of Aymara locality. Negotiating preexisting expectations of Catholicism and its representatives as necessary for the reproduction of local Aymara social…
Burying the Past: Locality, Lived History, and Death in an Aymara Ritual of Remembrance
Catechizing Culture: Missionaries, Aymara, and the "New Evangelization"
Nearly five centuries after the first wave of Catholic missionaries arrived in the New World to spread their Christian message, contemporary religious workers in the Bolivian highlands have begun to encourage Aymara Indians to return to traditional ritual practices. All but eradicated after hundreds of years of missionization, the "old ways" are now viewed as local cultural expressions of Christian values. In order to become more Christian, the A…
The Promise of Particularism and the Theology of Culture: "Limits and Lessons of "Neo-Boasianism
This article compares the status of "culture" as a politically engaged concept in Franz Boas's time and in our own time. Taking a Boasian approach to "neo-Boasianism," I examine the limits of this comparability in order to shed light on the nature of public culture-talk today and to identify dimensions of the Boasian concept of "culture" particularly relevant to a contemporary anthropology
Catechizing Culture: Missionaries Aymara, and the "New Evangelization."
Nearly five centuries after the first wave of Catholic missionaries arrived in the New World to spread their Christian message, contemporary religious workers in the Bolivian highlands have begun to encourage Aymara Indians to return to traditional ritual practices. All but eradicated after hundreds of years of missionization, the old ways are now viewed as local cultural expressions of Christian values. In order to become more Christian, the Aym…
The Anthropology of Christianity. Fenella Cannell
New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia. By Bret Gustafson, Durham
Forged Communities and Vulgar Citizens: Autonomy and its Límites in Semineoliberal Bolivia
Este artículo examina el impacto de los procesos de descentralización política sobre comunidades indígenas del altiplano boliviano. Enfatizando la creación de nuevos municipios rurales, describo las maneras en que las nuevas concepciones y prácticas de la vida cívica impactan formas locales de producción social, las cuales hace años han entretejido las comunidades indígenas dentro de la nación y más allá de la misma. Examino estas experiencias de…
Managing the margins: "MBA training, international business, and "the value chain of culture
Global capitalism requires a world of manageable differences. U.S. business schools train MBA students in the reckoning of international space as a field of risk and opportunity. Focusing particularly on the short-term study-abroad trips that have become a staple of MBA training in the past decade, I examine the role of international knowledge and experience as a constitutive part of the managerial selves contemporary capitalism is explicitly tho…
Commentary: Response to Karen Ho on cultures of capitalism, contexts of capitalism
The anthropology of capitalism requires ethnographic attention to capitalism at key sites of its production, as well as analytic recognition of the compulsive force of capitalism as it is produced and reproduced through a multitude of connected practices. This reply to Karen Ho's commentary on my AE article “Managing the Margins” addresses the tensions between approaching capitalism as context and as an emergent cultural production, and the chall…
Reiner Tom Zuidema (1927-2016)
On March 2, 2016, the cultural anthropologist and ethnohistorian of the Andes Reiner Tom Zuidema passed away in his home in Urbana, Illinois, at the age of 88. Descended on his father's side from a family of Frisian Mennonite farmers, Zuidema was raised in the Dutch city of Haarlem, where, toward the end of World War II, he spent many months in hiding from German Nazi occupation military recruiters. A talented violinist, Zuidema played in the Dut…
Indigenous Christianities: Commensuration, (De)Colonization, and Cultural Production in Latin America
From the earliest moments of the colonial encounter, indigenous Christianity has been an object of scrutiny. This chapter examines indigenous Christianity in its connection with a founding problem of Latin American studies: the asymmetrical encounter of indigenous communities with external powers and the resulting complex of social, political, and economic entanglements is the origin story of the project. The discussion is framed around two corre…
Dusty Signs and Roots of Faith: The Limits of Christian Meaning in Highland Bolivia
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