This paper is an attem pt to structure the ideas of my diss ertation project and divided into two parts: (1) First, I’m trying to develop a theoretical frame parting from Rosa’s resonance theory, passing through the meaning of rituals, connecting it with reciprocity (identified as structure behind the Andean cosmovision ), the gift (in the sense of Mauss/M.A.U.S.S.) and the Actor Network Theory and ending with sumak kawsay. On a theoretical basis, I am interested how t his different approaches are connected and/or can become connected. In the second part (2), I discover the methodological tools, which I want to use to answer my research questions: (a) how truck drivers and trucks associate with each
other in the Thurin gian and the Bolivian context and (b) how the relationship to the truck influences other relationships the truck driver might construct towards social, diagonal and essentialist entities.
This paper shall serve as starting f rame , through which I want to dive into the empirical fieldwork. Obviously it has to get further developed in theoretical deepness, as well as it has also to be rethought (on a theoretical and a methodological level) during and after the gathering of empirical data.
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