Kathleen B Lowrey
Biographic Data
| ID | 90658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen B Lowrey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen B |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowrey |
| SIGNATURE | LOWREY K B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shamans, Wives, Families
In this essay I describe what I have seen elapse over twenty years in the lives (and sometimes deaths) of two shamans and their respective wives in Isoso, an indigenous community of Guarani-speaking people in the Bolivian Chaco. These shamans’ two different kinds of shamanic practice, their two different sorts of marriage, and the two different life-trajectories of their wives resonate with the dual nature of Isoso itself and its historical const…
Salamanca and the city
This article draws on fieldwork carried out in a Guaraní-speaking community in the Bolivian Chaco - Isoso - between 1997 and 2000. At the time, some Isoseño people were employed in urban-headquartered projects that revolved around Isoso's environment, culture, or identity and that were funded multilaterally by grants, loans, or other foreign aid. The article describes a set of fantastic discourses circulating in rural Isoso that seem to compare a…
Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate
Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate: Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes and Amazon of Bolivia. Kevin Healy. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001. 482 pp
The Human Genome Diversity Project and the Precession of Simulacra
Salamanca and the city
This article draws on fieldwork carried out in a Guaraní-speaking community in the Bolivian Chaco - Isoso - between 1997 and 2000. At the time, some Isoseño people were employed in urban-headquartered projects that revolved around Isoso's environment, culture, or identity and that were funded multilaterally by grants, loans, or other foreign aid. The article describes a set of fantastic discourses circulating in rural Isoso that seem to compare a…
The Human Genome Diversity Project and the Precession of Simulacra
Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate
Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate: Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes and Amazon of Bolivia. Kevin Healy. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001. 482 pp
Salamanca and the city
This article draws on fieldwork carried out in a Guaraní-speaking community in the Bolivian Chaco - Isoso - between 1997 and 2000. At the time, some Isoseño people were employed in urban-headquartered projects that revolved around Isoso's environment, culture, or identity and that were funded multilaterally by grants, loans, or other foreign aid. The article describes a set of fantastic discourses circulating in rural Isoso that seem to compare a…
Shamans, Wives, Families
In this essay I describe what I have seen elapse over twenty years in the lives (and sometimes deaths) of two shamans and their respective wives in Isoso, an indigenous community of Guarani-speaking people in the Bolivian Chaco. These shamans’ two different kinds of shamanic practice, their two different sorts of marriage, and the two different life-trajectories of their wives resonate with the dual nature of Isoso itself and its historical const…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research (1 work) · Amazon rainforest (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Beauty (1 work)