http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/201/4359/899.2.full.pdf

Phenomenology of perception.

Truth and method

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Delinking : The rhetoric of modernity, the logic of coloniality and the grammar of de-coloniality

In December  I had the good fortune to be one of the commentators in the workshop ‘‘Historical Capitalism, Coloniality of Power, and Transmodernity,’’ featuring presentations by Immanuel Wallerstein, Anibal Quijano, and Enrique Dussel. Speakers were asked to offer updates and to elaborate on the concepts attributed to them. Reflecting on ‘‘transmodernity,’’ Dussel made a remark that I take as a central point of my argument. According to Dussel, postmodern criticism of modernity is important and necessary, but it is not enough. The argument was developed by Dussel in his recent short but important dialogue with Gianni Vattimo’s work, which he characterized as a ‘‘eurocentric critique of modernity.’’1 What else can there be, beyond a Eurocentric critique of modernity and Eurocentrism? Dussel has responded to this question with the concept of transmodernity, by which he means that modernity is not a strictly European but a planetary phenomenon, to which the ‘‘excluded barbarians’’ have contributed, although their contribution has not been acknowledged. Dussel’s argument resembles, then, the South Asian Subaltern Studies project, although it has

The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference

List of Figures List of Tables Preface Introduction 1. A Movement or a Market? 2. Coffee, Commodities, Crisis 3. One Region, Two Markets 4. The Difference a Market Makes: Livelihoods and Labor 5. A Sustainable Cup? Fair Trade, Shade-Grown Coffee, and Organic Production 6. Eating and Staying on the Land: Food Security and Migration 7. Dancing with the Devil? 8. Mejor, Pero No Muy Bien Que Digamos": The Limits of Fair Trade 9. Strengthening Fair Trade Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: Research Methods Notes Bibliography Index

Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival (Updated Edition)

The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic

El autor examina algunas dudas recientes sobre la eficacia misionera del cristianismo colonial en la region surandina. Presenta la organizacion etnica del ciclo festivo catolico en una parroquia valluna de los Macha : San Marcos de Miraflores (Provincia Charcas, Bolivia). En Macha los franciscanos se encargaban de la evangelizacion рог lo menos en el siglo 17 temprano. Se analiza la fiesta solar de Corpus Christi en base a : 1) un texto de un Libro de Fabrica local (hoy perdido), que ofrece detalles de la organizacion cofraternal en 1779 (se imprime este texto aqui, extraido de los apuntes de campo y las fotografias del autor) ; y 2) la descripcion etnografica de la misma fiesta en 1971 (que incluye ciertos ritos no mencionados en la version del siglo 18). La comparacion sugiere que las cofradias (como sus derivados, los alferazgos modernos) han servido, no solo para inculcar el « texto » cristiano, sino ademas para « interpretar » ese texto mediante un « comentario » articulado por los ritos extra-liturgicos. El analisis final del tinku (« batalla ritual ») muestra la fuerza de una configuracion propiamente andina del cristianismo, que hoy esta nuevamente amenazada con « extirpacion » por las Reformas liturgicas de la Iglesia y por los esfuerzos « modernizantes » de la mayoria de los clerigos catolicos (ademas de protestantes).

The Andean Soldiers of Christ. Confraternity organization, the Mass of the Sun and regenerative warfare in rural Potosi (18th-20th centuries)

Institut francais d'etudes andines - IFEA; Plural editores; University of St. Andrews; University of London; Interamerican Foundation; Fundacion Cultural del Banco Central de Bolivia

http://atlas.umss.edu.bo:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/696/1/LD-300-181.pdf

Qaraqara - Charka: Mallku, Inka y Rey en la provincia de Charcas (siglos XV-XVII) Historia antropológica de una confederación aymara

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.

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Tristan Platt

Papers

The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic

The Andean Soldiers of Christ. Confraternity organization, the Mass of the Sun and regenerative warfare in rural Potosi (18th-20th centuries)

Qaraqara - Charka: Mallku, Inka y Rey en la provincia de Charcas (siglos XV-XVII) Historia antropológica de una confederación aymara

A Return to the Village

Tres reflexiones sobre el pensamiento andino