The value of transformation: Agricultural labour and shifting bodies in the Bolivian highlands

IF 1.2 2区 社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY
Miranda Sheild Johansson
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This article explores transformation as a way of being in the rural Andes. It traces how transformation connects, and produces value within, multiple different spheres of life, specifically agricultural labour, personhood, identity, and space and movement. As an analytical lens, transformation allows us to revise prevailing understandings of how value is attached to agricultural work in these highland communities, moving away from theories of social cohesion, and towards emic logics of transformation and sociality as material enmeshment. Arguing that transformation is a crucial and valued part of being human in the Bolivia highlands, this piece offers an analytical gateway to better understanding Andean cosmology. Simultaneously, the ethnography contributes to wider debates about the place of transformation within conversations on labour, personhood, and sociality.
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期刊介绍: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is the principal journal of the oldest anthropological organization in the world. It has attracted and inspired some of the world"s greatest thinkers. International in scope, it presents accessible papers aimed at a broad anthropological readership. It is also acclaimed for its extensive book review section, and it publishes a bibliography of books received.
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