Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

369 Pages·2015·6.02 MB·English

by  Marisol de la Cadena

EARTH BEINGS

The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures / 2011
presented at The University of Rochester
Rochester, New York

M A R I S O L
D E L A C A D E N A
E A R T H B E I N G S
E C O L O G I E S O F
P R A C T I C E A C R O S S
A N D E A N W O R L D S
Foreword by Robert J. Foster and Daniel R. Reichman
Duke University Press Durham and London 2015
© 2015 Duke University Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Cadena, Marisol de la, author.
Earth beings : ecologies of practice across Andean worlds / Marisol de la Cadena.
pages cm — (The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-8223-5944-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)
isbn 978-0-8223-5963-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)
isbn 978-0-8223-7526-5 (e-book)
1. Ethnology—Peru. 2. Shamans—Peru. 3. Quechua Indians—Medicine—Peru. 
I. Title. II. Series: Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 2011.
gn564.p4c34 2015
305.800985—dc23 2015017937
Cover art: Collage using photograph by the author.
TO MARIANO AND NAZARIO TURPO
AND ALSO
TO CARLOS IVÁN DEGREGORI
N
Ocongate
to Cuzco R oad (Atom Mazaodnr era dinef Dorieosst)
Pacchanta
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PERU
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DEPARTMENT
OF
CUZCO
Lima Cuzco
Map Area 0 1 2 3 4 5 mi
0 2 4 6 8 km
Ausangate and surroundings.
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
xi
PREFACE
Ending This Book without Nazario Turpo
xv
STORY 1
Agreeing to Remember, Translating,
and Carefully Co- laboring
1
INTERLUDE 1
Mariano Turpo: A Leader In- Ayllu
35
STORY 2
Mariano Engages “the Land Struggle”:
An Unthinkable Indian Leader
59
STORY 3
Mariano’s Cosmopolitics:
Between Lawyers and Ausangate
91