Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology

440 Pages·1995·26.84 MB·English

by  Olivia Harris

ETHNICITY, MARKETS, AND
MIGRATION IN THE ANDES

ETHNICITY, MARKETS, AND
MIGRATION IN THE ANDES
At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology
EDITED BY BROOKE LARSON AND OLIVIA HARRIS
WITH ENRIQUE TANDETER
D U K E U N I V E R SIT Y PRE S S Durham and London
1995
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GUNNAR MENDOZA AND THIERRY SAIGNES

Contents
List of Maps ix
Acknowledgments
I
I Introduction 3
Andean Communities, Political Cultures, and Markets: The Changing
I.
Contours of a Field Brooke Larson 5
II From Inca to Spanish Rule:
The Making of Indians and Markets 55
2. Did Tribute and Markets Prevail in the Andes before the European
Invasion? john V Murra 57
3. The Variety and Ambiguity of Native Andean Intervention in
European Colonial Markets Steve j. Stern 73
4. Exchange in the Ethnic Territories between 1530 and 1567: The Visitas
of Huanuco and Chucuito Carlos Sempat Assadourian 101
5. Exchange and Markets in the Sixteenth Century: A View from the
North Susan E. Ramirez 135
III Andean Tribute, Migration, and Trade:
Remapping the Boundaries of Ethnicity and Exchange 165
6. Indian Migration and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Charcas
Thierry Saignes 167
Contents
7. Indians in Late Colonial Markets: Sources and Numbers Enrique
Tandeter, Vilma Milletich, Maria Matilda allier, and Beatriz Ruibal 196
8. Markets, Power, and the Politics of Exchange in Tapacari, c. 1780 and
1980 Brooke Larson and Rosario Leon 224
IV Negotiating the Meanings of Market Exchange: Community
and Hierarchy in Three Andean Contexts 257
9. Ethnic Calendars and Market Interventions among the Ayllus of Lipes
during the Nineteenth Century Tristan Platt 259
10. The Sources and Meanings of Money: Beyond the Market Paradigm
in an Ayllu of Northern Potosi Olivia Harris 297
II. "Women Are More Indian": Ethnicity and Gender in a Community
near Cuzco Marisol de fa Cadena 329
V Conclusion 349
12. Ethnic Identity and Market Relations: Indians and Mestizos in the
Andes Olivia Harris 351
Glossary 391
Selected Bibliography 397
Contributors 419
Index 421
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Maps
1. Andean ecological zones. 4
2. Andean sites of study. 6
3. South Andean Ethnic Groups. 166
4. Towns and markets of contemporary
Tapacari. 226
5. Lipes and surrounding area. 268
6. Northern Potosi. 298