Title The Andean world / edited by Linda J. Seligmann and Kathleen S. Fine-Dare

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 691 pages) : illustrations, maps Series The Routledge worlds Routledge worlds. Contents Strategically relevant Andean environments -- The domesticated landscapes of the Andes -- Water and power in the Peruvian Andes -- Radical changes in the development of Andean civilization -- Prehispanic social organization, integration, and hierarchy -- Life and death in the Central Andes: human biology, violence, and burial patterns in ancient Peru -- The Andean circulatory cosmos -- Northern Andean cosmology and Otavaland hip hop -- The Andean material world -- The conquest of the Andes from Andean perspectives -- Violence, resistance, and intercultural adaptations -- Viracocha vs. God: Andean thought and cultural change in colonial Bolivia -- Making and unmaking the Andean food pyramid: agronomy, animal science, and ideology -- Drinking together: continuity and change in Andean world -- Kinship, households, and sociality -- Production, trade, reciprocity and markets -- Andean gods and Catholic saints: Indigenous and Catholic intercultural encounters -- Evangelicalism in the rural Andes -- Nation-making and nationalism -- Ordinary states: fantasy, fear, and displacement in twentieth-century Peruvian state formation -- Agrarian reform and "development" -- Revolutions and violence -- Extreme violence in museums of memory: the place of memory in Peru -- "Indian" identity and indigenous revitalization movements -- The multicultural turn, the new Latin American constitutionalism, and black social movements in Andean sub-region -- Gender and sexuality in the Andes -- Labeling and linguistic discrimination -- Patron saint festivals and dance in Peru: histories told from within -- Andean musical expressions: ethnographic notes on materialities, ontologies and alterities -- Envisaging Andean indigeneity through photographic and audiovisual technologies -- Art for a modern Peru: the poetics and polemics of Indigenismo -- Three axes of variability in Quechus: regional diversification, contact with other indigenous languages, and social enregisterment -- Document, law, and the state in the Andes -- Education, power, and distinctions -- Hip hop and guinea pigs: contextualizing the urban Andes -- Plurinationality, indigeneity, neoliberalism, and social movement -- Citizenship and rights -- Transnational circuits: migration, money, and might in Peru's Andean communities -- The political and cultural economies of tourism in the Andes -- Growing coca leaf in the midst of the war against cocaine -- Water rights, extractive resources, and petroleum politics -- Reflections and projections: Andean worlds Summary This comprehensive reference offers an authoritative overview of Andean lifeways. It provides valuable historical context, and demonstrates the relevance of learning about the Andes in light of contemporary events and debates. The volume covers the ecology and pre-Columbian history of the region, and addresses key themes such as cosmology, aesthetics, gender and household relations, modes of economic production, exchange, and consumption, postcolonial legacies, identities, political organization and movements, and transnational interconnections. With over 40 essays by expert contributors that highlight the breadth and depth of Andean worlds, this is an essential resource for students and scholars alike Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Linda J. Seligmann is Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University, USA. Her most recent book is Broken Links, Enduring Ties: American Adoption across Race, Class, and Nation (2013). Kathleen S. Fine-Dare is Professor of Anthropology and Gender & Women's Studies at Fort Lewis College, USA. Her most recent book is Border Crossings: Transnational Americanist Anthropology (2009) Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2018) Subject Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- History Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Antiquities Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Social life and customs HISTORY -- Latin America -- General. HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. Antiquities Civilization Indians of South America Indians of South America -- Antiquities Indians of South America -- Social life and customs Manners and customs SUBJECT Andes Region -- Civilization Andes Region -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005006452 Andes Region -- History Andes Region -- Social life and customs Subject Andes Region Genre/Form handbooks. History Handbooks and manuals. Guides et manuels. Form Electronic book Author Seligmann, Linda J., 1954- editor. LC no. 2018009504 ISBN 1315621711 9781315621715 9781317220770 1317220773 9781317220787 1317220781

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