Invisible violence. Sorcery, aggression and personhood in the Andes

Authors

  • Nicolás Viotti Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-FLACSO

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v23i23p141-157

Keywords:

Sorcery, Sociality, Personhood, Central Andes, Argentina.

Abstract

Sorcery is a central element in the sociality of rural and urban populations in northwestern Argentina. This paper aims to relate sorcery (or daño) in the broader socio-cosmological order that, in contrastive terms, is proper of the Andean world. For this, the notion of personhood is used as an interpretive key, an embodied and compared resource that allows us to understand the place of sorcery and de-sorcery as forms to produce distress or well-being. It also emphasizes the place of aggression in a wider relational context, usually understood solely on the basis of solidarity and mutual aid. 

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Author Biography

  • Nicolás Viotti, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-FLACSO
    Dr. Antropología Social (PPGAS, Museu Nacional, UFRJ), Investigador Asistente del CONICET, Profesor del Programa de Antropología Social y Política (FLACSO-Argentina)

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Published

2014-12-31

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 23 (2014)

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Articles and Essays

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How to Cite

Viotti, N. (2014). Invisible violence. Sorcery, aggression and personhood in the Andes. Cadernos De Campo (São Paulo, 1991), 23(23), 141-157. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v23i23p141-157