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Domination and cultural resistance : authority and power among an Andean people / Roger Neil Rasnake.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rasnake, Roger Neil, 1951-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quechua Indians--Social life and customs.
- Quechua Indians.
- Quechua Indians--Ethnic identity.
- Quechua Indians--Government relations.
- Indians of South America--Bolivia--Yura--Social life and customs.
- Indians of South America.
- Indians of South America--Bolivia--Yura--Ethnic identity.
- Indians of South America--Bolivia--Government relations.
- Yura (Bolivia)--Social life and customs.
- Yura (Bolivia).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Domination and Cultural Resistance examines the social life of the Yura, a Quechua-speaking Andean ethnic group of central Bolivia, and focuses especially on their indigenous authorities, the kuraqkuna or elders. Combining ethnohistorical research with contemporary fieldwork, Roger Neil Rasnake traces the evolution of leadership roles within the changing composition of the native Andean social groupings, the ayllus-from the consolidation of pre-Hispanic Aymara polities, through the pressures of the Spanish colonial regime and the increasing fragmentation of the repub
- Contents:
- The Cultural Traditionalism of the Andean World
- The Yura Social Order and the Kuraqkuna
- Yura: Environment and People
- Social Organization and the Ayllu
- The Kuraqkuna of Yura Today
- Indigenous Authorities of the Past
- Invasion and Adaptation to the Colonial System
- Transformation of the Kurakaship: From Kurakas to Kuraqkuna
- The Kuraqkuna and the Construction of the Yura Symbolic World
- Festivals of the Kuraqkuna
- The Festival of Reyes
- The Symbolic World of the Kuraqkuna: The Staff of Authority
- Symbolic Dialogue: The Spirit World, Carnaval, and the State
- Symbolic Power and Cultural Resistance.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography: p. [293]-312.
- ISBN:
- 9786612904073
- 9781282904071
- 1282904078
- 9780822381518
- 0822381516
- OCLC:
- 191222196
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