Webs of fiesta-related trade: Chinese imports, investment and reciprocity in La Paz, Bolivia

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2020-03-12 DOI:10.1177/0308275X20908297

Juliane Müller

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Abstract

The public display and lavish spending of wealth for other-than-economic ends has been a topic of vital importance in anthropology and sociology. Studies on the expansion of markets and transnational mobility in Latin American rely on the persistent idea that new economic riches are turned into recognition, prestige and power through feast sponsorship in home communities. In this article, I demonstrate that among Bolivian traders who regularly source in Chile and China, stewardship of a dance group for a patronal fiesta in La Paz has ceased to be a sponsorship and become an investment. Traders have integrated the advance of fiesta-related money into their loops of capital, but they also depend on social ties and reciprocal obligations to make a profit. A translocal perspective is deployed in order to understand the entanglement of trading and feasting: traders’ experiences with the global economy and the persistence of fiesta-specific forms of mutuality as well as the principle of rotation of the stewardship. I argue that as webs of fiesta-related trades and services change year after year, business opportunities are temporarily distributed.

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节日相关贸易网站：中国在玻利维亚拉巴斯的进口、投资和互惠

在人类学和社会学中，为了经济目的而公开展示和挥霍财富一直是一个至关重要的话题。对拉丁美洲市场扩张和跨国流动的研究依赖于一种持久的观念，即新的经济财富通过在家乡社区的宴会赞助转化为认可、声望和权力。在这篇文章中，我展示了定期在智利和中国采购的玻利维亚商人，在拉巴斯的一个私人节日中管理一个舞蹈团已经不再是一种赞助，而是一种投资。商人们将与节日相关的收益融入到他们的资本循环中，但他们也依赖于社会关系和互惠义务来获利。为了理解交易和宴会之间的纠缠，我们采用了跨地域的视角:交易者在全球经济中的经历、节日特定形式的相互关系的持续存在，以及管理权轮换的原则。我认为，随着与节日相关的贸易和服务网络年复一年地变化，商业机会只是暂时分布的。

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