Open AccessCopper, llamas and a virus
Author(s) -
Hanne Cottyn
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
commodity frontiers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2667-2448
pISSN - 2667-243X
DOI - 10.18174/cf.2020a17966
Subject(s) - indigenous , resistance (ecology) , capitalism , pandemic , covid-19 , ethnology , geography , political science , virology , sociology , biology , medicine , law , politics , ecology , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This essay reflects on my re-encounter with the llama herders of Turco (Bolivia) and their entanglement with histories of capitalism and indigenous resistance (after many years without visiting). The pandemic sheds a new light on these shifting entanglements.
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