Double-Edged Counter-Narratives: Cosmology and Indigenous Rights in the Bolivian Andes
This paper looks into indigenous Aymara notions of ‘the strange’ and ‘the proper’ and examines how such notions are articulated in an indigenous criticism of a persistently colonial modernity. Such criticism is double-edged. On the one hand, it is articulated in a mythological idiom referring to conceptions of profound cosmological import and this paper delves into how such criticism is grounded i