TY  - JOUR
N2  - In the small Bolivian village of P?iya Qayma, the Baptist conversion of the mid- 1980s put an end to the overt worship of the animate and powerful land. However, while previous religious practices may have been subverted, the mysterious death of a villager triggers rumors that expose a continued belief in, and engagement with, the powers of the local land. The ethnographic data presented in this article demonstrates that rural, Protestant communities experience cosmological continuity post conversion, suggesting that this is because it is the everyday agricultural activities that animate the land, rather than religious practice. The paper further argues that paying attention to the simultaneous shifts and continuities that are part of processes of conversion, significantly contributes to our understanding of the dynamic vernacular production of pan-Andean human and non-human relationships.
ID  - discovery10057475
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12404
Y1  - 2019/07//
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
A1  - Sheild Johansson, CM
JF  - Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
VL  - 24
SP  - 573
IS  - 2
EP  - 590
TI  - ?The mountain ate his heart?: Agricultural Labour and Animate Land in a Protestant Andean Community
SN  - 1935-4932
AV  - public
KW  - Andes
KW  -  Indigenous people
KW  -  Religion
KW  -  Social Anthropology
KW  -  Identity
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
ER  -