Constructing cosmoscapes
Cosmological currents in conversation and contestation in contemporary Bolivia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2227451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosalyn Bold (University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 195-208 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/708033 |
| OpenAlex | W2999521023 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 27 |
This article explores how cosmological currents contest and converse with one another to compose a shifting "cosmoscape" in Kaata, a community in highland Bolivia. Contrasting worlding practices encompass reciprocal relations between humans, ancestral mummies, and animate earth beings like mountains, and an emerging conviction that such nonhumans merely comprise natural resources for human exploitation. Challenging an easy contrast between modernity and animism as reified ontologies, I explore the community as a cosmoscape composed of conversations between these contrasting cosmological trends, surfacing circumstantially; while some villagers engage with wondrous currents of self-enrichment, many believe they will have catastrophic consequences. Mountain beings are the result of cosmopolitical colonial negotiations with the state rather than timeless constructs, and the community continues to equivocate their meaning through social movements at the state level, contesting the instrumentalized use of earth beings by the so-called indigenous state, which enables rather than contests extractivism
Animism · Archaeology · Biology · Colonialism · CONTEST · Conviction · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Indigenous · Meaning (existential · Modernity · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Reciprocal · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Sex work and related issues
We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us
Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America
Modernity at large
The Ontological Turn
Cholas and pishtacos
Earth Beings
Earth Beings
Resistance, Rebellion, and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World, 18th to 20th Centuries
Nationstates and Indians in Latin America
Anthropological Linguistics
Indigenous Mestizos
"Representing "Real Indians
Invaders as Ancestors
The Indigenous State
Creating Context in Andean Cultures
Indigenous Cosmopolitics in the Andes
Dancing the image
There might be blood
Ontological anthropology and the deferral of critique
Managing alterity from within
To be Makiran is to see like Mr Parrot
The Living Ones
To Be In Between
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |