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Aesthetics of (re)existence: ritual approaches as part of the care routes in the Bolivian Amazon

Abstract:

This article presents some of the ritualistic organizational expressions of the Itonama community in the Bolivian Amazon, where the dances and the spirituality manifested in them, stand as part of a collective ethic of care. In them the female body takes center stage and makes use of these aesthetic expressions, in order to reinvent itself in a multitemporal logic and challenge the colonial-modern, patriarchal, capitalist system. Rituality in its diversity of forms, emerges as a political place of decision and incidence, which favors the reinvention of feminine subjectivities crossed by multiple intersectionalities.

Keywords:
Bolivian Amazon; Dances; Rituality; Reinvention; Care

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