About

Andrew Orta is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. He holds additional affiliations as a professor in the Global Studies Programs, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Center for Global Studies. His research and scholarly contributions focus on topics related to anthropology, including the culture of business, management education, capitalism, and Latin American Christianity. Orta has authored several books and articles, such as 'Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture' and 'Catechizing Culture: Missionaries, Aymara, and the "New Evangelization".' His work explores themes of cultural production, neoliberalism, and decolonization within Latin American contexts, contributing to the understanding of indigenous Christianities, inculturation, and the social dynamics of capitalism and management practices.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Philosophy
• Sociology
• Neoclassical economics
• Financial economics
• Religious studies
• Geography
• Environmental ethics
• Theology
• Law
• Economics
• Epistemology

Selected publications

• Chapter 1 The Production of Management and the Disappearance of the Manager in MBA Education

  Berghahn Books · 2025-02-18

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• The Production of Management and the Disappearance of the Manager in MBA Education

  Berghahn Books · 2025-02-04

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• Lessons of What Never Was: “Un-Justifying” Capitalism to Imagine Alternative Futures

  Ethical economy · 2024

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  • Political Science
  • Economics
  • Neoclassical economics
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• Noah Oehri, Landscapes of Liberation: Mission and Development in Peru's Southern Highlands, 1958–1988 Leuven University Press, 2023, pp. 231

  Journal of Latin American Studies · 2024

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  • Political Science
  • Political Science
  • Environmental ethics

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• 8. Dusty Signs and Roots of Faith: The Limits of Christian Meaning in Highland Bolivia

  Berghahn Books · 2022 · 2 citations

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  • Sociology
  • Geography
  • Religious studies
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• Indigenous Christianities

  2020-03-05 · 1 citations

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  From the earliest moments of the colonial encounter, indigenous Christianity has been an object of scrutiny. This chapter examines indigenous Christianity in its connection with a founding problem of Latin American studies: the asymmetrical encounter of indigenous communities with external powers and the resulting complex of social, political, and economic entanglements is the origin story of the project. The discussion is framed around two correlated arguments. First, like many other “Spanish” forms, Christianity was quickly insinuated as a self-evident and potent component of indigenous experience. This had cosmological as well as more prosaic implications. Within this context, indigenous locality—the ground of indigenous Christianities—is best examined not as an insular embattled survival (the “closed corporate community” of classical social science), but as an ever-emergent project of cultural production undertaken always with respect to a more inclusive sacred and social universe. The second argument concerns the ways this founding entanglement has become constitutive of indigenous locality, and advocates approaching Christianity less as an index of degrees of assimilation or change, and more as a dynamic cultural resource and frame of continuing encounter that remains a generative component of an emerging indigenous modernity.

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• Inculturation

  2019-01-01 · 1 citations

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• 3. Accounting for Business

  2019-10-01

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• Making Global MBAs

  2019-09-10 · 2 citations

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• 4. The Currency of Culture

  2019-10-01

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Frequent coauthors

• Matti Bunzl

  Jewish Theological Seminary

  2 shared

• Richard Handler

  University of Virginia

  2 shared

• Daniel Rosenblatt

  2 shared

• Ira Bashkow

  University of Virginia

  2 shared

• A. Delgado Roig

  Universidad de La Frontera

  2 shared

• Nils Jacobsen

  1 shared

Labs

• System Credentials Working GroupPI