A esthetics of (re)existence

Ritual approaches as part of the care routes in the Bolivian Amazon

Abstract

This article presents some of the ritualistic organizational expressions of the Itonama community in the Bolivian Amazon, where the dances and the spirituality manifested in them, stand as part of a collective ethic of care. In them the female body takes center stage and makes use of these aesthetic expressions, in order to reinvent itself in a multitemporal logic and challenge the colonial-modern, patriarchal, capitalist system. Rituality in its diversity of forms, emerges as a political place of decision and incidence, which favors the reinvention of feminine subjectivities crossed by multiple intersectionalities.