To defend ourselves: Ecology and ritual in an Andean village (Latin American monographs ; no. 47) - Softcover
The result of ten years of studying the Quechua peasants of Chuschi in south-central Peru, this work is a structuralist attempt to uncover the mechanisms whereby the people of this Andean society struggle to protect the social and economic independence of their community from the outside world. The ethnographic strength of the book is a careful and insightful discussion of kinship and marriage as well as descriptions and interpretations of hydraulic, harvest, and fertility rites. Introductory notes by the author discuss guerrilla activities in the community that said, "To defend ourselves is to defend our traditions."
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Consider these titles of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Bastien, Mountain of the Condor: Metaphor and Ritual in an Andean Ayllu; Weismantel, Food, Gender, and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes.
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"As a community study the book is a model of its kind, testifying to thorough and painstaking research mediated through close bonds of trust with the Chuschino villagers." -- M.J. Sallnow, Man
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- PublisherUniversity of Texas Press
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0292780311
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