Abercrombie, Thomas Alan, 1951-

Pathways of memory and power ethnography and history among an Andean people / [electronic resource] : Thomas A. Abercrombie. - Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. - xxviii, 603 p. : Grayscale Illustration ; 24 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One. An Ethnographic Pastorale: Introduction to K'ulta and the Local Sources of History -- Part Two. Historical Paths to K'ulta: An Andean Social Formation from Preinvasion Autonomy to Postrevolution Atomization -- Part Three. Social Memory in K'ulta: A Landscape Poetics of Narrative, Drink, and Saints' Festivals. Introduction: From Ritual to History and Back Again, Trajectories in Research and Theory -- Journeys to Cultural Frontiers -- The Dialogical Politics of Ethnographic Fieldwork -- Structures and Histories: K'ulta between Gods and State -- Pathways of Historical Colonization: Stories of an Andean Past from the Archives of Letters and Landscapes -- Colonial Relandscaping of Andean Social Memory -- Telling and Drinking the Paths of Memory: Narrative and Libation Poetics as Historical Consciousness -- Living on Tatala's Path: Uses of the Past in Sacrifice and Antisacrifice, Saints' Festivals, and Sorceries -- Conclusion: Ethnography and History of Social Memory and Amnesia.



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--History.--Religion.--Rites and ceremonies.--Bolivia--K'ulta.--Bolivia--K'ulta.


K'ulta (Bolivia)--History.
K'ulta (Bolivia)--Politics and government.
K'ulta.
Latin American.

Aymara Indians Aymara Indians Aymara Indians Festivals Ethnohistory