Description |
300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : maps ; 23 cm |
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Oslo studies in social anthropology |
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Oslo studies in social anthropology.
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Contents |
Ch. 1. Essential beginnings: A cultural map of parts and a whole. Peru's three regions. Matapuquio. The soup. Theory and method. The problem with "migration" -- Ch. 2. Leave-taking. Boundaries and boundary-breaking. Travel documents. Letters. The Apachakui - commissions. Pledging the land. The Kachapari - farewell feast. Illos and illaqkuna. Making the contract for Chanchamayo -- Ch. 3. Arrival as final boundary. Being received. Becoming accustomed - a kind of knowledge. Learning new ways of work -- Ch. 4. Making the whole: Matapuquio as object. Lima settlements. Voluntary clubs. Sending gifts: a kind of tribute. Objectifying boundaries: spatial aspects of the whole. Division and the sense of separateness -- Ch. 5. The Eastern Forest and the Dilemma of Savagery. The jungle as antisocial. Trees. Bondage. Settlers. Isolation and gender relations -- Ch. 6. The here and there; transforming the spatial framework of the world. Quechua space/time. The village vista |
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Costa as landscape: settling the mound. The Montana as landscape -- Ch. 7. The now and then; personhood and the emerging sense of individual autonomy. Aspects of the ideal Runa. Displaced persons. Luck progress: the view of a personal history. Becoming literate implies becoming foreign -- Ch. 8. Return - a foregone conclusion. Traditional view of "history" Expectation of return. Millenarianism in the Andes. Returning to Matapuquio |
Summary |
In this book the author seeks to understand the deep and subtle frameworks of meaning in the disparate experiences of, on the one hand, migrant Peruvian highlanders settled in Lima and, on the other, the village community in the jungle region of Chanchamayo they have left. Focusing on traditional conceptions of separation and connectedness (frequent themes expressed in the thoughts and actions of migrants from the village of Matapuquio), this Andean ethnography addresses questions of general interest concerning individual identity in collectivities undergoing transformation |
Analysis |
Ethnic groups Social life |
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Peru |
Notes |
Bibliography; p272-290. - Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [272]-290) and index |
Subject |
Cultural relativism -- Peru.
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Ethnology -- Peru.
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Indians of South America -- Social life and customs.
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Quechua Indians -- Colonization.
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Quechua Indians -- Social conditions.
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LC no. |
94240220 |
ISBN |
8200219577 |
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