On choosing sides: ethical anthropology and inter-indigenous conflict in Alto Beni, Bolivia

Sturtevant, Chuck

doi:10.1080/17442222.2021.1975362

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“…Many anthropological texts have been written about the indigenous peoples of Bolivia, the country with the largest indigenous populations in South America (Fabricant and Postero 2015;Postero 2017;Sturtevant 2021). Bolivian social and indigenous movements have been widely analysed over the last two decades (Van Cott 2008;Yashar 2005).…”

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“We are Indians, Whores and Lesbians, Revolted and Twined Together.” Decolonial Feminism in Bolivia

Jetmarová

2022

Ethnologia Actualis

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The aim of the text is to analyse contemporary Bolivian decolonial feminism using Cusicanquiʼs model of cultural hybridity. Cusicanqui formulated the concept of chʼixi as an analytical tool for theorizing about the mixing of cultures that maintain distinct aspects but enter a mutual creative dialogue and create new qualities through it. In my analysis, I focus on two streams of Bolivian decolonial feminism, represented by Mujeres Creando and Mujeres Creando Comunidad movements. First, I describe historical roots of Bolivian decolonial feminism with an emphasis on the influence of anarchist ideas both on the formation of the Bolivian workersʼ movement and on strategies and practices of social and indigenous movements at the turn of the millennium. In the following discussion I analyse the ideologies and strategies of Mujeres Creando and Mujeres Creando Comunidad movements using Cusicanquiʼs model of hybridity. I conclude that both movements construct a subversive network of alternative knowledge and practices, within which seemingly contradictory experiences can coexist harmoniously and create a new, non-dichotomous qualities. According to Cusicanqui, these chʼixi spaces are the source of a new, emerging epistemology based on which a radical vision of decolonised modernity can be formulated.

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Section: Introduction: Practicing the Radical Theory Of Silvia Rivera...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“We are Indians, Whores and Lesbians, Revolted and Twined Together.” Decolonial Feminism in Bolivia

Jetmarová

2022

Ethnologia Actualis

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On choosing sides: ethical anthropology and inter-indigenous conflict in Alto Beni, Bolivia

Cited by 1 publication

References 55 publications

“We are Indians, Whores and Lesbians, Revolted and Twined Together.” Decolonial Feminism in Bolivia

“We are Indians, Whores and Lesbians, Revolted and Twined Together.” Decolonial Feminism in Bolivia

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