1st Edition
Linking Separate Worlds Urban Migrants and Rural Lives in Peru
By Karsten Paerregaard
Copyright 1997
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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This pathbreaking ethnography of population movements between rural and urban places in Peru addresses the conceptual and methodological problems of studying ‘deterritorialized' populations and the implications of this for anthropology's notions of culture and identity. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book explores the economic, social and ritual bonds which link migrants in Peru's major cities... Read more
Acknowledgements, List of Figures, List of Tables, 1. Looking beyond the Andes, 2. The Rise and Fall of Tapay, 3. Rural Consonance and Urban Discord, 4. Old and New Livelihoods, 5. Making the Best of Both Worlds, 6. Last to Arrive, First to Leave, 7. Other Ways of Being Tapeno, 8. From Sacrifice to Folklore, 9. Reconfiguring the Andean Mosaic, Glossary, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Karsten Paerregaard Institute of Anthropology,University of Copenhagen
