Pathways of Memory and Power Ethnography and History among an Andean People

Name: Pathways of Memory and Power Ethnography and History among an Andean People
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ISBN: 9780299153144

ISBN-10: 0299153142

ISBN-13: 9780299153144

Edition: 1998

Authors: Thomas A. Abercrombie

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nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Pathways of Memory and Power crosses the disciplinary boundary where anthropology and history meet, exploring the cultural frontier of the colonial and postcolonial Andes. Thomas A. Abercrombie uses his fieldwork in the Aymara community of Santa Barbara de Culta, Bolivia, as a starting point for his ambitious examination of the relations between European forms of historical consciousness and indigenous Andean ways of understanding the past. Writing in an inviting first-person narrative style, Abercrombie confronts the ethics of fieldwork by comparing ethnographic experience to the power-laden contexts that produce historical sources. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Making clear the…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 7/6/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 632
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Illustrations


Preface



Introduction: From Ritual to History and Back Again, Trajectories in Research and Theory



An Ethnographic Pastorale: Introduction to K'ulta and the Local Sources of History



Journeys to Cultural Frontiers



The Dialogical Politics of Ethnographic Fieldwork



Structures and Histories: K'ulta between Gods and State



Historical Paths to K'ulta: An Andean Social Formation from Preinvasion Autonomy to Postrevolution Atomization



Pathways of Historical Colonization: Stories of an Andean Past from the Archives of Letters and Landscapes



Colonial Relandscaping of Andean Social Memory



Social Memory in K'ulta: A Landscape Poetics of Narrative, Drink, and Saints' Festivals



Telling and Drinking the Paths of Memory: Narrative and Libation Poetics as Historical Consciousness



Living on Tatala's Path: Uses of the Past in Sacrifice and Antisacrifice, Saints' Festivals, and Sorceries



Conclusion: Ethnography and History of Social Memory and Amnesia



Francisco Pizarro's Grant of Acho and Guarache to Hernando de Aldana



Juntas de Indios en Pueblos Formados; Alcaldes Hordinarios, Regidores Cadaneros



Chapters and Ordinances for the Town of Our Lady of Bethlehem



Extirpation Report of Priest Hernan Gonzales de la Casa (Late Sixteenth Century)



Circular Letter to Alcaldes of K'ulta, 1781



Corcino Perez' Petitions to the President of Bolivia, 1894


Notes


Glossary


References


Index