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Down to Earth: Race and Substance in the Andes
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The racial identities of Indians and mestizos in a highland Peruvian region are closely associated with their relative positions to the earth as mentioned in this paper, and this distinction is maintained and reinforced through the use of material objects in everyday life.About:
This article is published in Bulletin of Latin American Research.The article was published on 1998-05-01. It has received 95 citations till now.read more
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Water Sustainability: Anthropological Approaches and Prospects
Ben Orlove,Steven C. Caton +1 more
TL;DR: Water has become an urgent theme in anthropology as the worldwide need to provide adequate supplies of clean water to all people becomes more challenging as discussed by the authors, and anthropologists contribute by seeing water not only as a resource, but also as a substance that connects many realms of social life.
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Revanchist Urbanism Heads South: The Regulation of Indigenous Beggars and Street Vendors in Ecuador
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the particular and pernicious ways in which these neoliberal urban policies affect indigenous peoples in the urban informal sector and argue that Ecuador's particular twist on revanchism is through its more transparent engagement with the project of blanqueamiento or whitening.
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The Taste of Conquest: Colonialism, Cosmopolitics, and the Dark Side of Peru's Gastronomic Boom
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the consequences of the boom gastronomico for the world indigena and the world menos visible of los animales andinos como cuyes and alpacas.
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Natives Making Nation: Gender, Indigeneity, and the State in the Andes
TL;DR: Natives Making Nation as mentioned in this paper examines the ways in which numerous identities-racial, generational, ethnic, regional, national, gender, and sexual-are both mutually informing and contradictory among subaltern Andean people who are more likely now to claim an allegiance to a nation than ever before.
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Going Public: A New Extension Method
TL;DR: The authors developed a method of face-to-face extension, called Going Public, which makes use of places where farmers meet spontaneously, such as markets, bus terminals and other public places, to create a two-way learning channel.
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time.
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The Country and the City
TL;DR: As a brilliant survey of English literature in terms of changing attitudes towards country and city, Williams' highly-acclaimed study reveals the shifting images and associations between these two traditional poles of life throughout the major developmental periods of English culture.
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.
TL;DR: The authors argue that white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to black workers.
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The wages of whiteness : race and the making of the American working class
TL;DR: The authors argue that white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to black workers.
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Cooking, Cuisine and Class: A Study in Comparative Sociology
TL;DR: Goody as mentioned in this paper discusses the differences in food preparation and consumption emerging in these societies to differences in their socio-economic structures, specifically in modes of production and communication, and concludes with an examination of the worldwide rise of 'industrial food' and its impact on Third World societies, showing that the ability of the latter to resist cultural domination in food, as in other things, is related to the nature of their pre-existing socioeconomic structures.