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| Author(s): |
Brett Alan Buckingham
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2022-03-25 |
| Examining board members: |
Marina Vanzolini Figueiredo;
Denise Yvonne Arnold Bush;
José Quidel Lincoleo;
Bernardo Enrique Rozo Lopez
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| Advisor: | Marina Vanzolini Figueiredo |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation glimpses moments of distinct life stories and asks, in light of them, about the particularity of the world where they take place, the contemporary urban Andean world of La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia. The place where I met the people who compose these pages is the center of ancestral medicine called Casa Ajayu. Two of the workshops hosted by the Casa in which I was a participant will be the object of narrative and analytical effort, but the paths of my interlocutors will take us well beyond the walls of the center. The first moment of this work opens the question of how the form of communitarian politics supported by urban collective projects like Casa Ajayu implicates the relation between healing, knowledge and decolonization, as well as the conception of the space-time of world change called pachakuti. The second moment seeks to situate the entanglement of my interlocutors within the history of indigenous urban migration by attending to the perspectives of those who inherit it, accompanying their reflections on the themes of loss, illness and rupture and the form of social alterity associated with life in the city. Finally, our attention turns to the public reflections of some of the yatiris (in aymara, knowers, healers) that were associated with the Casa in an effort to identify the terms by which return, understood as the restitution of relations with the ancestors and the recomposition of a more-than-human community capable of sustaining life itself, may become a matter of common concern to the metropolitan public (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/04426-6 - Decolonization and healing practices in the Bolivian Andes: Earth beings and Ukamaw knowledge |
| Grantee: | Brett Alan Buckingham |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |