TY - JOUR
T1 - "Living the past another way:" Reinstrumentalized missionary selves in Aymara mission fields
AU - Orta, Andrew
PY - 2002/9
Y1 - 2002/9
N2 - This article examines Catholic missionaries in the Bolivian highlands. I focus on missionary conversion accounts-narratives of self-transformation in the face of their local mission fields-taking these as on analytic opportunity to address the positions of such global agents as component subjects of Aymara locality. Negotiating preexisting expectations of Catholicism and its representatives as necessary for the reproduction of local Aymara social life as well as emerging pastoral ideologies with their own expectations of indigenous locality, the self-transformation experienced by missionaries in the field asserts a reinstrumentalized missionary self os a plausible tronslocal subject. [missionization, Catholicism, locality, Aymara, Bolivia, South America].
AB - This article examines Catholic missionaries in the Bolivian highlands. I focus on missionary conversion accounts-narratives of self-transformation in the face of their local mission fields-taking these as on analytic opportunity to address the positions of such global agents as component subjects of Aymara locality. Negotiating preexisting expectations of Catholicism and its representatives as necessary for the reproduction of local Aymara social life as well as emerging pastoral ideologies with their own expectations of indigenous locality, the self-transformation experienced by missionaries in the field asserts a reinstrumentalized missionary self os a plausible tronslocal subject. [missionization, Catholicism, locality, Aymara, Bolivia, South America].
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U2 - 10.1353/anq.2002.0065
DO - 10.1353/anq.2002.0065
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036765081
SN - 0003-5491
VL - 75
SP - 707
EP - 743
JO - Anthropological Quarterly
JF - Anthropological Quarterly
IS - 4
ER -