Domination and Cultural Resistance : Authority and Power Among an Andean People /

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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 trac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rasnake, Roger Neil, 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1988.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Leiderschap.
Quechua (volk)
Ethnologie
Quechua Indians > Social life and customs.
Quechua Indians > Government relations.
Quechua Indians > Ethnic identity.
Manners and customs.
Indians of South America > Social life and customs.
Indians of South America > Government relations.
Indians of South America > Ethnic identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Indiens d'Amerique > Bolivie > Relations avec l'État.
Quechua (Indiens) > Relations avec l'État.
Quechua (Indiens) > Identite ethnique.
Quechua (Indiens) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Indiens d'Amerique > Amerique du Sud.
Quechua (Indiens)
Indians of South America.
Quechua Indians.
Indians of South America > Bolivia > Government relations.
Indians of South America > Bolivia > Yura > Ethnic identity.
Indians of South America > Bolivia > Yura > Social life and customs.
Bolivia > Yura.
Bolivia.
Yura (Bolivia) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (335 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822381518

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