Sheild Johansson, Miranda;
(2025)
The value of transformation: Agricultural labour and shifting bodies in the Bolivian highlands.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
, 31
(4)
10.1111/1467-9655.14265.
(In press).
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Abstract
This article explores transformation as a way of being in the rural Andes. It traces how transformation connects, and produces value within, multiple different spheres of life, specifically agricultural labour, personhood, identity, and space and movement. As an analytical lens, transformation allows us to revise prevailing understandings of how value is attached to agricultural work in these highland communities, moving away from theories of social cohesion, and towards emic logics of transformation and sociality as material enmeshment. Arguing that transformation is a crucial and valued part of being human in the Bolivia highlands, this piece offers an analytical gateway to better understanding Andean cosmology. Simultaneously, the ethnography contributes to wider debates about the place of transformation within conversations on labour, personhood, and sociality.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The value of transformation: Agricultural labour and shifting bodies in the Bolivian highlands |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9655.14265 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14265 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Anthropological Institute. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200523 |
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