The Community of Believers: Law, Rituals and Magic in a Self-Governed Bolivian Prison
| Autor: | Francesca Cerbini |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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060101 anthropology
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Environmental ethics Prison 06 humanities and the arts Space (commercial competition) 16. Peace & justice Magic (paranormal) Ethnography Spirituality 050501 criminology 0601 history and archaeology Sociology Imprisonment Order (virtue) 0505 law media_common |
| Zdroj: | Carceral Communities in Latin America ISBN: 9783030614980 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-61499-7_9 |
| Popis: | Within the self-governed prison of San Pedro (La Paz-Bolivia), Andean ritual specialists (yatiris) play an important role. They adapt themselves to an unusual scenario and work to solve problems concerning imprisonment, marking an important arena of hope and contention. Based on a long-term ethnography, the case study presented in this chapter sheds light on how spirituality and rituals are mobilized to create a community of believers and to produce new subjectivities and a certain knowledge of the prison space. I demonstrate how Andean rituals, magic and witchcraft may offer a system and a practice of order within ambiguous circumstances, where legitimization processes are to be constantly redefined and negotiated and where different powers are set against each other to create or destroy likewise. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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