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The 2019 electoral crisis in Bolivia was characterized by division and disagreement. In the three weeks between the country's presidential election in October 2019 and sitting president Evo Morales's resignation, both Morales's supporters and his detractors marched in the streets chanting parallel slogans in which each identified themselves as "the people" (el pueblo). This article examines what it means to identify collectively as "the people" in contemporary Bolivia and the nature of the term as a floating signifier used to justify opposing claims by protestors on both sides of defending Bolivian democracy. The use of the same self-identification by different groups represents a disagreement of the kind referred to by Jacques Rancière when two actors use the same term without recognizing the meaning given to it by the other. This disagreement is representative of competing ideas about democracy, belonging and the nation itself operating simultaneously within Bolivia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the rural Bolivian Andes, personhood is defined by intersubjective reciprocal relationships between human and nonhuman beings. This paper examines the role of the house as a living being in itself and a conduit between its inhabitants and local place deities. In the rural Andes, houses (traditionally made from adobe but increasingly from brick) materially connect their inhabitants with a sacred landscape, and rituals performed at their construction create the house as a living being in its own right. This article, based on fieldwork with the Kallawayas, an indigenous nation in Northwest Bolivia, examines the Kallawaya relationship to the house in the context of Andean ethnography on housebuilding, observing the role of the house in communal ritual life. The house, for the Kallawayas, is argued to be an assemblage of energy with its inhabitants and the landscape, a fractal representative of the homologous structure of the rural Andean community, the ayllu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Infusion of intracoronary prostaglandin I(2) (PGI(2)) enhances the amount of intestinal blood and modifies intestinal P-V association toward the volume axis. A cardiac vagal reflex controls the rise in the amount of intestinal blood which is related to reductions in cardiac filling pressure and liver blood volume. Bilateral vagotomy negates PGI(2)-induced alterations.

This article examines the legacy of 1990s’ neoliberal decentralization reform in shaping an indigenous autonomy project in Bolivia. It focuses on the municipality of Charazani, which is in the process of becoming an Indigenous Autonomy, or Autonomía Indígena Originario Campesina (AIOC), examining the local origins of the autonomy project, and the reasons why it has stalled. To do so, I refer to political projects of indigenous authorities in Charazani in the early 1990s, to take power locally as a bloc and disconnect themselves from the power of the local townspeople by challenging fictive kinship ties with them. The article explores the role that local devolved forms of government have had in producing competition among indigenous communities since the 1990s and the effect on the formulation of a joint project for indigenous autonomy. The establishment of indigenous autonomy requires cooperation and agreement among the communities of the municipalities undergoing conversion to an AIOC. This article posits that internal disagreements, which threaten autonomy, are closely entwined with the neoliberal structures upon which local governance is based (and from which AIOCs are supposed to spring), which encourage intercommunity competition for scarce resources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]