Maria Tapias
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039171
- eISBN:
- 9780252097157
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039171.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This book examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many of its women. Drawing on case studies conducted among ...
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This book examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many of its women. Drawing on case studies conducted among market- and working-class women in the provincial town of Punata, the book examines how headaches and debilidad, so-called normal bouts of infant diarrhea, and the malaise oppressing whole communities were symptomatic of profound social suffering. The book approaches the narratives of emotional distress caused by poverty, domestic violence, and the failure of social networks as constituting the knowledge that shaped their understandings of well-being. At the crux of the analysis is the idea that individual health perceptions, actions, and practices cannot be separated from local cultural narratives or from global and economic forces. Evocative and compassionate, the book gives voice to the human costs of the ongoing neoliberal experiment.Less
This book examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many of its women. Drawing on case studies conducted among market- and working-class women in the provincial town of Punata, the book examines how headaches and debilidad, so-called normal bouts of infant diarrhea, and the malaise oppressing whole communities were symptomatic of profound social suffering. The book approaches the narratives of emotional distress caused by poverty, domestic violence, and the failure of social networks as constituting the knowledge that shaped their understandings of well-being. At the crux of the analysis is the idea that individual health perceptions, actions, and practices cannot be separated from local cultural narratives or from global and economic forces. Evocative and compassionate, the book gives voice to the human costs of the ongoing neoliberal experiment.
Maria Tapias
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039171
- eISBN:
- 9780252097157
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039171.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This chapter explores how market and working-class women in Bolivia perceived children's health to be affected through mothers' faulty emotional responses to distress and through their bodies. ...
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This chapter explores how market and working-class women in Bolivia perceived children's health to be affected through mothers' faulty emotional responses to distress and through their bodies. Focusing on the experience of two working-class women in Punata, the chapter examines the intergenerational embodiment of emotional distress and the ways in which social suffering affects children through folk illnesses known as arrebato and debilidad. The discussion centers on the interrelationships among maternal emotions, breastfeeding, pregnancy, and infant susceptibility to illness. The cases are presented within the context of the global war on drugs and money-laundering activities that reveal the entanglement of the interrelational politics of emotional expression, gender relations, and the impact of the economic reforms and the coca/cocaine industry at a local level.Less
This chapter explores how market and working-class women in Bolivia perceived children's health to be affected through mothers' faulty emotional responses to distress and through their bodies. Focusing on the experience of two working-class women in Punata, the chapter examines the intergenerational embodiment of emotional distress and the ways in which social suffering affects children through folk illnesses known as arrebato and debilidad. The discussion centers on the interrelationships among maternal emotions, breastfeeding, pregnancy, and infant susceptibility to illness. The cases are presented within the context of the global war on drugs and money-laundering activities that reveal the entanglement of the interrelational politics of emotional expression, gender relations, and the impact of the economic reforms and the coca/cocaine industry at a local level.
