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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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The Andes are attracting global interest again: they hold valuable mineral resources, tourists appreciate their great natural beauty and the diversity of indigenous cultures, climbers scale rock and ice faces, while many others are intrigued by regional political developments, such as the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela or the almost unfettered hegemony of the neoliberal economic model in Chile. This volume is the first attempt for decades to present a complete overview of the longest mountain chain on the planet – a region of remarkable climatic, floristic and geologic diversity, where advanced civilization developed well before the arrival of the Spanish. Today the Andes continue to be characterized by their ethnic, demographic, cultural and economic diversity, as well as by the disparity of local socioeconomic groups. The Andean countries pursue a wide range of approaches to tackle the challenges of making the best use of their natural and cultural potential without damaging their ecological basis, as well as to overcome economic disparity and foster social cohesion. This book provides insights into this unique region and its most pressing issues, complemented by a wealth of pictures and comprehensive diagrams, which, in sum, help to better understand these fascinating mountains.

Geography. --- Physical Geography. --- Economic Geography. --- Cultural Studies. --- Physical geography. --- Géographie --- Géographie physique --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Physical Geography --- 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 --- Economic geography. --- Cultural studies. --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Geography, Economic --- World economics --- Commercial geography --- Culture --- Study and teaching. --- Cultural studies