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Desde la decada de los sesenta hasta el presente, varios estudios han analizado las formaciones discursivas que conforman la razon latinoamericana. Los ensayos del presente volumen se limitan al espacio mas estrecho--aunque igualmente desafiante--de los Andes, una categoria que, aun hoy, estamos lejos de definir univocamente. Abarcando un marco temporal que va desde el desarrollo y la expansion de culturas prehispanicas como Chavin y Tiwanaku hasta el activismo contemporaneo de un ecuatoriano migrante en Nueva York que lucha por reclamar su condicion indigena, el volumen propone una genealogia de conceptos como "lo andino" y "andinismo" a traves de una mirada critica a su desarrollo historico y su potencialidad teorica. La introduccion y los cinco capitulos en ingles y espanol reflexionan sobre el estado de los estudios andinos a partir de una serie de operaciones criticas que invitan a problematizar las estrategias politicas que se esconden detras de toda proclamacion de un origen andino para la nacion; subrayar el continuo proceso de reconstruccion y regeneracion de la cosmopraxis andina desde la conquista; interpelar la centralidad del siglo XIX en la constitucion de "lo andino" como una eficaz herramienta para institucionalizar la cultura nacional; historizar la construccion del "andinismo" como una categoria clave para al estudio de los procesos culturales andinos; y, por ultimo, contextualizar la dinamicidad de la cultura andina desde su afianzamiento en espacios globales.

Andes Region --- Acuerdo de Cartagena countries --- Andean countries --- Andean region --- Social life and customs. --- Civilization. --- History.

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This edited volume brings together several scholars who have produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities, mostly in Peru but also in neighbouring countries. These ethnographies were published between the 1970s and 2000s, following different theoretical and thematic approaches, and they often transcended the boundaries of case studies to become important reference works on key aspects of Andean culture: for example, the symbolism and ritual uses of coca in the case of Catherine J. Allen; agricultural rituals and internal social divisions in the case of Peter Gose; social organisation and kinship in the case of Billie Jean Isbell; the use of khipus and concepts of literacy in the case of Frank Salomon; and the management and ritual dimensions of water and irrigation in the case of Ricardo Valderrama and Carmen Escalante. In their chapters the authors revisit their original works in the light of contemporary anthropology, focusing on different academic and personal aspects of their ethnographies. For example, they explain how they chose the communities they worked in; the personal relations they established there during fieldwork; the kind of links they have maintained; and how these communities have changed over time. They also review their original methodological and theoretical approaches and findings, reassessing their validity and explaining how their views have evolved or changed since they originally conducted their fieldwork and published their studies. This book also offers a review of the evolution and role of community ethnographies in the context of Andean anthropology. These ethnographies had a significant influence between the 1940s and 1980s, when they could be roughly divided – following Olivia Harris – between ‘long-termist’ and ‘short-termist’ approaches, depending on predominant focuses on historical continuities or social change respectively. However, by the 1990s these works came to be widely considered as too limited and subjective in the context of wider academic changes, such as the emergence of postmodern trends, and reflective and literary turns in anthropology. Overall, the book aims to reflect on this evolution of community ethnographies in the Andes, and on their contribution to the study of Andean culture.

Communities. --- Ethnology. --- Andes Region. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Community --- Social groups --- Acuerdo de Cartagena countries --- Andean countries --- Andean region

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Economic history. --- Politics and government --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Andes Region --- Andes Region. --- Acuerdo de Cartagena countries --- Andean countries --- Andean region --- Economic conditions --- Business, Economy and Management --- Social Sciences --- Developmental Issues & Socioeconomic Studies

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La última década del siglo debía significar para América Latina la consolidación democrática y la inserción en la nueva economía-mundo. Pero en un contexto de crisis económica y ajuste neoliberal, el proceso resultó mucho más complejo de lo esperado. Nuevos problemas y nuevos actores cuestionaron los marcos que parecían definitivos. Nuestro continente, y dentro de él los países andinos, se encuentran así en una situación difícil pero fértil en nuevas posibilidades. El presente volumen contiene una selección de las ponencias presentadas a las Primeras Jornadas de Politología: "Las formas políticas de la democracia en los países andinos" convocadas por el Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos (IFEA). El texto se divide en cuatro secciones que abordan temas cruciales para el futuro de nuestros países: Democracia y partidos políticos; democracia y etnicidad; problemas de la transición democrática; democracia y violencia.

Government - Non-U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Government - Central & South America --- Andes Region --- Politics and government. --- Acuerdo de Cartagena countries --- Andean countries --- Andean region --- historia política --- Ciencias Políticas --- violencia política

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Incas --- Indians of South America --- Indiens d'Amérique --- History --- Sources. --- Antiquities --- Histoire --- Sources --- Antiquités --- Andes Region --- Andes --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Inca Indians --- Ethnology --- Acuerdo de Cartagena countries --- Andean countries --- Andean region