Contact Information
382 Davenport Hall
607 S Mathews Ave.
M/C 148
Urbana, IL 61801
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Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Global Studies Programs and Courses
Professor, Center for Global Studies
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Highlighted Publications
Orta, A. (2019). Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture. (California Series in Public Anthropology; Vol. 47). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvp2n2mb
Orta, A. (2013). Managing the margins: MBA training, international business, and "the value chain of culture". American Ethnologist, 40(4), 689-703. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12048
Orta, A. (2013). Forged Communities and Vulgar Citizens: Autonomy and its Límites in Semineoliberal Bolivia. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 18(1), 108-133. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1935-4940.2012.01249.x
Orta, A. (2004). Catechizing Culture: Missionaries, Aymara, and the "New Evangelization". Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/orta13068
Recent Publications
Orta, A. (2020). Indigenous Christianities: Commensuration, (de)colonization, and cultural production in Latin America. In D. T. Orique O.P, S. Fitzpatrick-Behrens, & V. Garrard (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199860357.001.0001
Orta, A. (2019). Imagining the unmanageable: MBAs at the limits of neoliberalism. Culture, Theory and Critique, 60(1), 50-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2018.1543604
Orta, A. (2019). Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture. (California Series in Public Anthropology; Vol. 47). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvp2n2mb
Orta, A. (2016). Inculturation. In H. Gooren (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions (pp. 1-6). [Chapter 206-1] Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_206-1
Orta, A. (2016). Inculturation theology and the "new evangelization". In V. Garrad-Burnett, P. Freston, & S. C. Dove (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Religions in Latin America (pp. 591-602). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781139032698.037