Andrew Orta

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Office:
Anthropology 382 Davenport Hall 607 S Mathews M/C 148 Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217)244-7108
Email: aorta@illinois.edu

Orta, Andrew. Catechizing Culture: Missionaries, Aymara and the “New Evangelization”. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.

Orta, Andrew. "Dusty signs and roots of faith: the limits of Christian meaning in highlands Bolivia.." Christian Ritual and the Limits of Meaning. Ed. Matt Tomlinson and Mathew Engelke. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006. 165-188.

Orta, Andrew. "Ethnography: South America: Highlands." Handbook of Latin Americn Studies 63 (2008): 150-166.
Orta, Andrew. "Catechists at the Crossroads: Neo-Catholicism, neoliberalism and the shifting sociopolitical landscape of Aymara life." Politics and Religion 2.2 (2008): 99-120.
Orta, Andrew. "The promise of particularism and the theology of culture: the limits and lessons of "neo-Boasianism"." American Anthropologist 106.3 (2004): 473-487.
Orta, Andrew. ""Living the past another way:" Reinstrumentalized missionary selves in aymara mission fields." Anthropological Quarterly 75.4 (2002): 707-743.
Orta, Andrew. "Burying the past: Locality, lived history, and death in an aymara ritual of remembrance." Cultural Anthropology 17.4 (2002): 471-511.
Orta, Andrew. "Nightwatch: The politics of protest in the Andes." Anthropological Quarterly 74.2 (2002): 92-93.