Book Talk – “Ghostly Invasions: Political Theologies of Fire in Post-Coup Bolivia”
Haines Hall Room 352 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesPart of Culture Power and Social Change, Dept of Anthropology Massive wildfires erupted across Bolivia only months before the violent ousting of the country’s first Indigenous president, Evo Morales Ayma, in 2019. Media critics depicted his mainly Indigenous followers as ghostly "invaders” who, having received property through his government, were using fires to clear land...