Kathleen Lowrey
Biographic Data
| ID | 97778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Lowrey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowrey |
| SIGNATURE | LOWREY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9639-4520 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Who Killed Jules Crevaux? Murder in the Chaco
A Response to the Commentary by Sterling et al. (2023)
Anthropology's three ontological turns
Gender Identity Ideology Conquers the World
Anthropology's Three Ontological Turns
More than 'an' ontological turn, during recent decades, anthropology has taken three distinct ontological turns. It has turned away from the human, away from evolution and away from sex. As a result, a lively and prolific anti-anthropology is steadily displacing anthropology. This new work has run the gamut from very interesting to very silly. At this juncture, a return to traditional anthropological approaches would be salutary
Trans Ideology and the New Ptolemaism in the Academy
Wrong about the Land Without Evil but right about shamanism. The lasting legacy of Hélène Clastres
Article Wrong about the Land Without Evil but right about shamanism. The lasting legacy of Hélène Clastres was published on May 1, 2020 in the journal ZfK - Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften (volume 14, issue 1)
Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains
Wizards and Ghosts
The place in Isoso, Bolivia, where I can turn up unexpectedly at three in the morning and receive a hug and a bed and leave days later with tears on all sides lost, several years ago, its person of central anthropological interest.This was a shaman, quite a renowned one in the region.He managed to his eventual regret to attract the attention of so many scientists and agents of development that eventually a laboratory was built around him which be…
No Place Like Home
The place in Isoso, Bolivia, where I can turn up unexpectedly at three in the morning and receive a hug and a bed and leave days later with tears on all sides lost, several years ago, its person of central anthropological interest.This was a shaman, quite a renowned one in the region.He managed to his eventual regret to attract the attention of so many scientists and agents of development that eventually a laboratory was built around him which be…
Shamans and Spies
The place in Isoso, Bolivia, where I can turn up unexpectedly at three in the morning and receive a hug and a bed and leave days later with tears on all sides lost, several years ago, its person of central anthropological interest.This was a shaman, quite a renowned one in the region.He managed to his eventual regret to attract the attention of so many scientists and agents of development that eventually a laboratory was built around him which be…
Shamans and Wives
The place in Isoso, Bolivia, where I can turn up unexpectedly at three in the morning and receive a hug and a bed and leave days later with tears on all sides lost, several years ago, its person of central anthropological interest.This was a shaman, quite a renowned one in the region.He managed to his eventual regret to attract the attention of so many scientists and agents of development that eventually a laboratory was built around him which be…
Jessica Scott Jerome, A right to health
This excellent ethnography of the dynamic relations among residents of a favela in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil, the pursuit and provision of health care, and notions of citizenship will appeal to
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…
Hijos de la Selva/Sons of the Forest - Federico Bossert and Diego Villar
Ethics, Politics, and Host Space
This essay compares two communities of common origin that now dwell in separate rural lowland South American settings, one in the Bolivian Chaco and the other in the Paraguayan Chaco (maps 1 and 2). South America's Gran Chaco is sparsely populated, averaging one person per three square kilometers (Censo Nacional Indígena [Paraguay], 2002). Nevertheless, the present essay takes as its analytic-theoretical point of departure a phrase invoked by Mic…
Alfred Russel Wallace as ancestor figure
The article argues that anthropology might look to Alfred Russel Wallace as an ancestor figure for three reasons. First, it is under‐recognized that he was an accomplished and sympathetic ethnographic fieldworker. Second, evidence is emerging that his intuitions were surer than were Darwin's as to evolutionary mechanisms. Third, he was willing to appear as a “crank” on questions of ontology. These last two issues animate anthropology as we presen…
Comparative Studies and the South American Gran Chaco
This article reviews the historical and present prospects of ethnohistorical and ethnographic work in the South American Gran Chaco. Geographically the Chaco is a semi-arid central South American plain, some one million square kilometers in size, encompassing portions of northern Argentina, eastern Bolivia, and western Paraguay. Average rainfall oscillates around 800 mm/yr, with the peripheries being wetter and the central Chaco drier. Some 250,0…
Incommensurability and new economic strategies among indigenous and traditional peoples
This article takes as a central problem why both a tiny laboratory and an enormous national park were almost simultaneously established in a remote tropical Bolivian indigenous community (Isoso) in the mid-1990s. Both projects – laboratory and the park – were oriented to non-economic values: the laboratory to those of traditional medicine and culture and the park to those of unspoiled nature. However, Isoseño people were particularly attentive to…
Witchcraft as metaculture in the Bolivian Chaco
La sorcellerie en tant que méta-culture dans le Chaco bolivien. Le point de départ de cet article est une assemblée qui eut lieu en 1999 dans l’Isoso, une communauté indienne guaranophone du Chaco bolivien. L’assemblée, qui réunissait plusieurs villages, avait été convoquée pour résoudre un cas d’accusation de sorcellerie. On argumente que les dirigeants isoseño s’efforcèrent d’affronter le problème à un niveau « méta-culturel », en le considéran…
Slaves without Masters? Arawakan Dynasties among the Chiriguano (Bolivian Chaco, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries)
A product of the conquest of an Arawakan population by Tupí-Guaraní migrants, Chiriguano society offers a clear instance of "indigenous hybridity" that has received inadequate scholarly attention. We suggest that the assimilation of the Chiriguano case to Tupí-Guaraní sociopolitical models demonstrates a process of "Guaranization" that has influenced scholars as much as-if not more than-the Chiriguano themselves. By means of an ethnohistorical an…
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…
Bolivia Multiétnico y Pluricultural, Ten Years Later
This essay treats the rise of separatist sentiment in lowland Bolivia, a region of the country that is dominated by whites rather than Indians. It addresses antecedents of that sentiment that stretch back to the start of the 20th century, and the surprising way in which the 1990s rhetoric of ‘multiculturalism’ and ethnic rights has been seized upon by this self-described minority within the majority-indigenous nation of Bolivia. Finally, it exami…
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
Slaves without Masters? Arawakan Dynasties among the Chiriguano (Bolivian Chaco, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries)
A product of the conquest of an Arawakan population by Tupí-Guaraní migrants, Chiriguano society offers a clear instance of "indigenous hybridity" that has received inadequate scholarly attention. We suggest that the assimilation of the Chiriguano case to Tupí-Guaraní sociopolitical models demonstrates a process of "Guaranization" that has influenced scholars as much as-if not more than-the Chiriguano themselves. By means of an ethnohistorical an…
Bolivia Multiétnico y Pluricultural, Ten Years Later
This essay treats the rise of separatist sentiment in lowland Bolivia, a region of the country that is dominated by whites rather than Indians. It addresses antecedents of that sentiment that stretch back to the start of the 20th century, and the surprising way in which the 1990s rhetoric of ‘multiculturalism’ and ethnic rights has been seized upon by this self-described minority within the majority-indigenous nation of Bolivia. Finally, it exami…
Comparative Studies and the South American Gran Chaco
This article reviews the historical and present prospects of ethnohistorical and ethnographic work in the South American Gran Chaco. Geographically the Chaco is a semi-arid central South American plain, some one million square kilometers in size, encompassing portions of northern Argentina, eastern Bolivia, and western Paraguay. Average rainfall oscillates around 800 mm/yr, with the peripheries being wetter and the central Chaco drier. Some 250,0…
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…
Gender Identity Ideology Conquers the World
Anthropology's three ontological turns
Anthropology's Three Ontological Turns
More than 'an' ontological turn, during recent decades, anthropology has taken three distinct ontological turns. It has turned away from the human, away from evolution and away from sex. As a result, a lively and prolific anti-anthropology is steadily displacing anthropology. This new work has run the gamut from very interesting to very silly. At this juncture, a return to traditional anthropological approaches would be salutary
Trans Ideology and the New Ptolemaism in the Academy
Alfred Russel Wallace as ancestor figure
The article argues that anthropology might look to Alfred Russel Wallace as an ancestor figure for three reasons. First, it is under‐recognized that he was an accomplished and sympathetic ethnographic fieldworker. Second, evidence is emerging that his intuitions were surer than were Darwin's as to evolutionary mechanisms. Third, he was willing to appear as a “crank” on questions of ontology. These last two issues animate anthropology as we presen…
Witchcraft as metaculture in the Bolivian Chaco
La sorcellerie en tant que méta-culture dans le Chaco bolivien. Le point de départ de cet article est une assemblée qui eut lieu en 1999 dans l’Isoso, une communauté indienne guaranophone du Chaco bolivien. L’assemblée, qui réunissait plusieurs villages, avait été convoquée pour résoudre un cas d’accusation de sorcellerie. On argumente que les dirigeants isoseño s’efforcèrent d’affronter le problème à un niveau « méta-culturel », en le considéran…
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
Slaves without Masters? Arawakan Dynasties among the Chiriguano (Bolivian Chaco, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries)
A product of the conquest of an Arawakan population by Tupí-Guaraní migrants, Chiriguano society offers a clear instance of "indigenous hybridity" that has received inadequate scholarly attention. We suggest that the assimilation of the Chiriguano case to Tupí-Guaraní sociopolitical models demonstrates a process of "Guaranization" that has influenced scholars as much as-if not more than-the Chiriguano themselves. By means of an ethnohistorical an…
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…
Bolivia Multiétnico y Pluricultural, Ten Years Later
This essay treats the rise of separatist sentiment in lowland Bolivia, a region of the country that is dominated by whites rather than Indians. It addresses antecedents of that sentiment that stretch back to the start of the 20th century, and the surprising way in which the 1990s rhetoric of ‘multiculturalism’ and ethnic rights has been seized upon by this self-described minority within the majority-indigenous nation of Bolivia. Finally, it exami…
Witchcraft as metaculture in the Bolivian Chaco
La sorcellerie en tant que méta-culture dans le Chaco bolivien. Le point de départ de cet article est une assemblée qui eut lieu en 1999 dans l’Isoso, une communauté indienne guaranophone du Chaco bolivien. L’assemblée, qui réunissait plusieurs villages, avait été convoquée pour résoudre un cas d’accusation de sorcellerie. On argumente que les dirigeants isoseño s’efforcèrent d’affronter le problème à un niveau « méta-culturel », en le considéran…
Incommensurability and new economic strategies among indigenous and traditional peoples
This article takes as a central problem why both a tiny laboratory and an enormous national park were almost simultaneously established in a remote tropical Bolivian indigenous community (Isoso) in the mid-1990s. Both projects – laboratory and the park – were oriented to non-economic values: the laboratory to those of traditional medicine and culture and the park to those of unspoiled nature. However, Isoseño people were particularly attentive to…
Comparative Studies and the South American Gran Chaco
This article reviews the historical and present prospects of ethnohistorical and ethnographic work in the South American Gran Chaco. Geographically the Chaco is a semi-arid central South American plain, some one million square kilometers in size, encompassing portions of northern Argentina, eastern Bolivia, and western Paraguay. Average rainfall oscillates around 800 mm/yr, with the peripheries being wetter and the central Chaco drier. Some 250,0…
Alfred Russel Wallace as ancestor figure
The article argues that anthropology might look to Alfred Russel Wallace as an ancestor figure for three reasons. First, it is under‐recognized that he was an accomplished and sympathetic ethnographic fieldworker. Second, evidence is emerging that his intuitions were surer than were Darwin's as to evolutionary mechanisms. Third, he was willing to appear as a “crank” on questions of ontology. These last two issues animate anthropology as we presen…
Ethics, Politics, and Host Space
This essay compares two communities of common origin that now dwell in separate rural lowland South American settings, one in the Bolivian Chaco and the other in the Paraguayan Chaco (maps 1 and 2). South America's Gran Chaco is sparsely populated, averaging one person per three square kilometers (Censo Nacional Indígena [Paraguay], 2002). Nevertheless, the present essay takes as its analytic-theoretical point of departure a phrase invoked by Mic…
Hijos de la Selva/Sons of the Forest - Federico Bossert and Diego Villar
Jessica Scott Jerome, A right to health
This excellent ethnography of the dynamic relations among residents of a favela in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil, the pursuit and provision of health care, and notions of citizenship will appeal to
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…
Wrong about the Land Without Evil but right about shamanism. The lasting legacy of Hélène Clastres
Article Wrong about the Land Without Evil but right about shamanism. The lasting legacy of Hélène Clastres was published on May 1, 2020 in the journal ZfK - Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften (volume 14, issue 1)
Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains
Wizards and Ghosts
The place in Isoso, Bolivia, where I can turn up unexpectedly at three in the morning and receive a hug and a bed and leave days later with tears on all sides lost, several years ago, its person of central anthropological interest.This was a shaman, quite a renowned one in the region.He managed to his eventual regret to attract the attention of so many scientists and agents of development that eventually a laboratory was built around him which be…
No Place Like Home
The place in Isoso, Bolivia, where I can turn up unexpectedly at three in the morning and receive a hug and a bed and leave days later with tears on all sides lost, several years ago, its person of central anthropological interest.This was a shaman, quite a renowned one in the region.He managed to his eventual regret to attract the attention of so many scientists and agents of development that eventually a laboratory was built around him which be…
Shamans and Spies
The place in Isoso, Bolivia, where I can turn up unexpectedly at three in the morning and receive a hug and a bed and leave days later with tears on all sides lost, several years ago, its person of central anthropological interest.This was a shaman, quite a renowned one in the region.He managed to his eventual regret to attract the attention of so many scientists and agents of development that eventually a laboratory was built around him which be…
Shamans and Wives
The place in Isoso, Bolivia, where I can turn up unexpectedly at three in the morning and receive a hug and a bed and leave days later with tears on all sides lost, several years ago, its person of central anthropological interest.This was a shaman, quite a renowned one in the region.He managed to his eventual regret to attract the attention of so many scientists and agents of development that eventually a laboratory was built around him which be…
Trans Ideology and the New Ptolemaism in the Academy
Anthropology's three ontological turns
Gender Identity Ideology Conquers the World
Anthropology's Three Ontological Turns
More than 'an' ontological turn, during recent decades, anthropology has taken three distinct ontological turns. It has turned away from the human, away from evolution and away from sex. As a result, a lively and prolific anti-anthropology is steadily displacing anthropology. This new work has run the gamut from very interesting to very silly. At this juncture, a return to traditional anthropological approaches would be salutary
A Response to the Commentary by Sterling et al. (2023)
Who Killed Jules Crevaux? Murder in the Chaco
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