A return to the village : : community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture in retrospective / / edited by Francisco Ferreira, Billie Jean Isbell.

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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Place / Publishing House:London : : University of London Press,, 2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) :; illustrations, maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • List of acronyms and abbreviations
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture
  • 1. Reflections on fieldwork in Chuschi
  • 2. Losing my heart
  • 3. Deadly waters, decades later
  • 4. Yanque Urinsaya: ethnography of an Andean community (a tribute to Billie Jean Isbell)
  • 5. Recordkeeping: ethnography and the uncertainty of contemporary community studies
  • 6. Long lines of continuity: field ethnohistory and customary conservation in the Sierra de Lima
  • 7. Avoiding 'community studies': the historical turn in Bolivian and South Andean anthropology
  • 8. In love with comunidades
  • References
  • Index
  • Back Matter.