A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture in retrospective

This edited volume brings together several scholars who have produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities, mostly in Peru but also in neighbouring countries. These ethnographies were published between the 1970s and 2000s, following different theoretical and thematic approaches, and they...

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description This edited volume brings together several scholars who have produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities, mostly in Peru but also in neighbouring countries. These ethnographies were published between the 1970s and 2000s, following different theoretical and thematic approaches, and they often transcended the boundaries of case studies to become important reference works on key aspects of Andean culture: for example, the symbolism and ritual uses of coca in the case of Catherine J. Allen agricultural rituals and internal social divisions in the case of Peter Gose social organisation and kinship in the case of Billie Jean Isbell the use of khipus and concepts of literacy in the case of Frank Salomon and the management and ritual dimensions of water and irrigation in the case of Ricardo Valderrama and Carmen Escalante. In their chapters the authors revisit their original works in the light of contemporary anthropology, focusing on different academic and personal aspects of their ethnographies. For example, they explain how they chose the communities they worked in the personal relations they established there during fieldwork the kind of links they have maintained and how these communities have changed over time. They also review their original methodological and theoretical approaches and findings, reassessing their validity and explaining how their views have evolved or changed since they originally conducted their fieldwork and published their studies. This book also offers a review of the evolution and role of community ethnographies in the context of Andean anthropology. These ethnographies had a significant influence between the 1940s and 1980s, when they could be roughly divided – following Olivia Harris – between ‘long-termist’ and ‘short-termist’ approaches, depending on predominant focuses on historical continuities or social change respectively. However, by the 1990s these works came to be widely considered as too limited and subjective in the context of wider academic changes, such as the emergence of postmodern trends, and reflective and literary turns in anthropology. Overall, the book aims to reflect on this evolution of community ethnographies in the Andes, and on their contribution to the study of Andean culture.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-827082025-03-15T15:39:43Z A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture in retrospective Ferreira, Francisco Isbell, Billie Jean Anthropology Communities Andean Culture Fieldwork Ethnohistory Indigenous Studies This edited volume brings together several scholars who have produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities, mostly in Peru but also in neighbouring countries. These ethnographies were published between the 1970s and 2000s, following different theoretical and thematic approaches, and they often transcended the boundaries of case studies to become important reference works on key aspects of Andean culture: for example, the symbolism and ritual uses of coca in the case of Catherine J. Allen agricultural rituals and internal social divisions in the case of Peter Gose social organisation and kinship in the case of Billie Jean Isbell the use of khipus and concepts of literacy in the case of Frank Salomon and the management and ritual dimensions of water and irrigation in the case of Ricardo Valderrama and Carmen Escalante. In their chapters the authors revisit their original works in the light of contemporary anthropology, focusing on different academic and personal aspects of their ethnographies. For example, they explain how they chose the communities they worked in the personal relations they established there during fieldwork the kind of links they have maintained and how these communities have changed over time. They also review their original methodological and theoretical approaches and findings, reassessing their validity and explaining how their views have evolved or changed since they originally conducted their fieldwork and published their studies. This book also offers a review of the evolution and role of community ethnographies in the context of Andean anthropology. These ethnographies had a significant influence between the 1940s and 1980s, when they could be roughly divided – following Olivia Harris – between ‘long-termist’ and ‘short-termist’ approaches, depending on predominant focuses on historical continuities or social change respectively. However, by the 1990s these works came to be widely considered as too limited and subjective in the context of wider academic changes, such as the emergence of postmodern trends, and reflective and literary turns in anthropology. Overall, the book aims to reflect on this evolution of community ethnographies in the Andes, and on their contribution to the study of Andean culture. 2022-06-02T04:15:52Z 2022-06-02T04:15:52Z 2022-05-31T14:13:53Z 2016 book ONIX_20220531_9781908857842_13 ONIX_20220531_9781908857842_13 OCN: 1410134866 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/55743 9781908857248 9781908857255 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/82708 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/55743/1/9781908857842.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/55743/1/9781908857842.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/55743/1/9781908857842.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/55743/1/9781908857842.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/55743/1/9781908857842.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/55743/1/9781908857842.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/55743/1/9781908857842.pdf University of London Press Institute of Latin American Studies University of London Press 10.14296/0520.9781908857842 10.14296/0520.9781908857842 3fae60e1-9f6a-42ab-a7ee-73df8c57b4f2 9781908857248 9781908857255 Institute of Latin American Studies University of London Press 328 London open access
spellingShingle Anthropology
Communities
Andean Culture
Fieldwork
Ethnohistory
Indigenous Studies
A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture in retrospective
title A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture in retrospective
title_full A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture in retrospective
title_fullStr A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture in retrospective
title_full_unstemmed A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture in retrospective
title_short A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture in retrospective
title_sort return to the village community ethnographies and the study of andean culture in retrospective
topic Anthropology
Communities
Andean Culture
Fieldwork
Ethnohistory
Indigenous Studies
topic_facet Anthropology
Communities
Andean Culture
Fieldwork
Ethnohistory
Indigenous Studies
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