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Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

By Robert J. Foster , Marisol de la Cadena , Daniel R. Reichman

Book information

Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2015
ISBN
0822359448, 9780822359449
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6309960 bytes)
Series
The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Pages
368\369
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-11-24 22:07:38
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Description

Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial connections between them, de la Cadena presents how the Turpos' indigenous ways of knowing and being include and exceed modern and nonmodern practices. Her discussion of indigenous political strategies—a realm that need not abide by binary logics—reconfigures how to think about and question modern politics, while pushing her readers to think beyond "hybridity" and toward translation, communication that accepts incommensurability, and mutual difference as conditions for ethnography to work.

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