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This beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. Ben Orlove brings alive the fishermen, reed cutters, boat builders, and families of this isolated region, and describes the role that Lake Titicaca has played in their culture. He describes the landscapes and rhythms of life in the Andean highlands as he considers the intrusions of modern technology and economic demands in the region. Lines in the Water tells a local version of events that are taking place around the world, but with an unusual outcome: people here have found ways to maintain their cultural autonomy and to protect their fragile mountain environment. The Peruvian highlanders have confronted the pressures of modern culture with remarkable vitality. They use improved boats and gear and sell fish to new markets but have fiercely opposed efforts to strip them of their indigenous traditions. They have retained their customary practice of limiting the amount of fishing and have continued to pass cultural knowledge from one generation to the next--practices that have prevented the ecological crises that have followed commercialization of small-scale fisheries around the world. This book--at once a memoir and an ethnography--is a personal and compelling account of a research experience as well as an elegantly written treatise on themes of global importance. Above all, Orlove reminds us that human relations with the environment, though constantly changing, can be sustainable.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Titicaca Lake Region (Peru and Bolivia) --- Description and travel. --- Social life and customs. --- andean highlands. --- andes mountains. --- anthropology. --- cultural history. --- cultural studies. --- culture. --- economics. --- economy. --- environment. --- ethnography. --- fieldwork. --- fishing. --- geography. --- global. --- highlands. --- indigenous people. --- indigenous villages. --- lake titicaca. --- landscape. --- meditation. --- memoir. --- modern world. --- natural world. --- nature. --- peru. --- peruvian mountains. --- peruvian. --- regional. --- small town. --- sustainability. --- technology. --- true story. --- villagers.

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Portraits in the Andes examines indigenous and mestizo self-representation through the medium of photography from the early to mid twentieth century. As Jorge Coronado reveals, these images offer a powerful counterpoint to the often-slanted, predominant view of indigenismo produced by the intellectual elite. Photography offered an inexpensive and readily available technology for producing portraits and other images that allowed lower- and middle-class racialized subjects to create their own distinct rhetoric and vision of their culture. The powerful identity-marking vehicle that photography provided to the masses has been overlooked in much of Latin American cultural studies--which have focused primarily on the elite's visual arts. Coronado's study offers close readings of Andean photographic archives from the early- to mid-twentieth century, to show the development of a consumer culture and the agency of marginalized groups in creating a visual document of their personal interpretations of modernity.

Portrait photography --- Photography --- Portraiture --- History. --- Portraits --- Andes --- Andean Mountain Range --- Andean Mountains --- Andean Range --- Andes Mountain Range --- Andes Mountain Ranges --- Andes Mountains --- Andes Range --- Andes Ranges --- Anti (Mountains) --- Antis (Mountains) --- Cordillera de los Andes --- Los Andes --- The Andes --- History --- E-books --- 1900-1999

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Indians of South America --- Huacas. --- Antiquities. --- Peru --- Andes --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Guacas --- Wakas --- Sacred space --- Ethnology --- Antiquities --- Andean Mountain Range --- Andean Mountains --- Andean Range --- Andes Mountain Range --- Andes Mountain Ranges --- Andes Mountains --- Andes Range --- Andes Ranges --- Anti (Mountains) --- Antis (Mountains) --- Cordillera de los Andes --- Los Andes --- The Andes

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This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Americas. An important contribution to evolving studies on conservation of sacred natural sites (SNS), the book elucidates the complexity of development scenarios within cultural landscapes related to the appropriation of religion, environmental change in indigenous territories, and new conservation management approaches. Indigeneity and the Sacred explores how these struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reconstituted as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.

Indigenous peoples --- Sacred space --- Historic sites --- Conservation and restoration --- amazon. --- america. --- andes mountains. --- anthropologist. --- anthropology. --- archaeology. --- biocultural. --- catholicism. --- cherokee. --- conservation. --- cultural. --- demographics. --- ecuador. --- environment. --- fausto sarmiento. --- geography. --- good life. --- identity. --- indigenous people. --- land. --- mexico. --- mountains. --- national park. --- natives. --- natural world. --- north america. --- policy. --- political. --- power. --- protection. --- research. --- revival. --- sacred. --- sarah hitchner. --- scholarly. --- south america. --- united states.

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This volume provides an up-to-date and in-depth summary and analysis of the political practices of pre-Columbian communities of the Araucanians or Mapuche of southcentral Chile and adjacent regions. This synthesis draws upon the empirical record documented in original research, as well as a critical examination of previous studies. By applying both archaeological and ethnohistorical approaches, the latter including ethnography, this volume distinguishes itself from many other studies that explore South American archaeology. Archaeological and traditional-historical narratives of the pre-European past are considered in their own terms and for the extent to which they can be integrated in order to provide a more rounded and realistic understanding than otherwise of the origins and courses of ecological, economic, social and political changes in the south-central Andes from late pre-Hispanic times, through the contact period and up to Chile’s independence from Spain (ca. AD 1450-1810). Both the approach and the results are discussed in the light of similar situations elsewhere.   Throughout its treatment, the volume continually comes back to two central questions: (1) how did the varied practices, institutions, and worldviews of the Mapuche’s ancient communities emerge as a historical process that resisted the Spanish empire for more than 250 years, and (2) how were these communities reproduced and transformed in the face of ongoing culture contact and landscape change during the early Colonial period? These questions are considered in light of contemporary theoretical concepts regarding practice, landscape, environment, social organization, materiality, community, and what the author refers to as a teleoscopic political formation that will make the book relevant for students and scholars interested in similar processes elsewhere.

Andes -- Antiquities. --- Anthropology. --- Archaeology. --- History & Archaeology --- Archaeology --- Andes --- Antiquities. --- Archeology --- Andean Mountain Range --- Andean Mountains --- Andean Range --- Andes Mountain Range --- Andes Mountain Ranges --- Andes Mountains --- Andes Range --- Andes Ranges --- Anti (Mountains) --- Antis (Mountains) --- Cordillera de los Andes --- Los Andes --- The Andes --- Social sciences. --- History. --- Social Sciences. --- History, general. --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Annals --- Human beings --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences --- Araucanía (Chile) --- IX Región (Chile) --- Región IX (Chile) --- Novena Región (Chile) --- 9a Región (Chile) --- Araucanie (Chile)