TY - JOUR
T1 - Inca of the blood, Inca of the soul
T2 - Embodiment, emotion, and racialization in the Peruvian mystical tourist industry
AU - Hill, Michael
N1 - Funding Information:
Michael Hill, Interdisciplinary Studies Center, Drury University, 900 N. Benton Ave., Springfield, MO 65802, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. I thank Tulasi Srinivas for envisioning and organizing a group of anthropologists of religion on the topic of emotion and the body, and I also thank the other participants in that group and in the research as a whole for their comments and insights. Richard Schur and Teresa Hornsby of Drury University offered helpful commentaries on earlier versions of this piece, as did anonymous reviewers. My research was made possible through grants from the Organization of American States and the Emory University Internationalization Fund. A National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, “Andean Worlds: New Directions in Scholarship and Teaching,” also contributed to the maturation of this paper.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - In the context of the globalizing New Age movement and of the "turismo mistico" (mystical tourism) industry emanating from Peru, white and mestizo New Age practitioners and tourists fashion ideologies emphasizing the spiritual energy which supposedly resides in Quechua bodies, even as they freely appropriate Quechua cosmology and ritual for a hybridized New Age Andean spirituality. This case shows how racialized structural inequalities are expressed and experienced by tourists and New Age movement leaders through particular, essentialist representations of the body and through a common repertoire of emotional responses to inequality, commodification, and privilege. The paper provides an ethnographic account of how racialization may be perpetuated, negotiated, and resisted through religious systems, particularly through the work of constructing ideologies and experiences of the body and of emotional subjectivity.
AB - In the context of the globalizing New Age movement and of the "turismo mistico" (mystical tourism) industry emanating from Peru, white and mestizo New Age practitioners and tourists fashion ideologies emphasizing the spiritual energy which supposedly resides in Quechua bodies, even as they freely appropriate Quechua cosmology and ritual for a hybridized New Age Andean spirituality. This case shows how racialized structural inequalities are expressed and experienced by tourists and New Age movement leaders through particular, essentialist representations of the body and through a common repertoire of emotional responses to inequality, commodification, and privilege. The paper provides an ethnographic account of how racialization may be perpetuated, negotiated, and resisted through religious systems, particularly through the work of constructing ideologies and experiences of the body and of emotional subjectivity.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/57749128404
U2 - 10.1093/jaarel/lfn007
DO - 10.1093/jaarel/lfn007
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 20681090
AN - SCOPUS:57749128404
SN - 0002-7189
VL - 76
SP - 251
EP - 279
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Religion
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Religion
IS - 2
ER -