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Hold Life Has : Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community by Catherine J. Allen (2002, Trade Paperback)
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Hold Life Has : Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community, Paperback by Allen, Catherine J., ISBN 1588340325, ISBN-13 9781588340320, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Allen (anthropology and international affairs, George Washington U.) offers an update of her ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes, first published in 1985. Including an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000, and with other updates and revisions, the volume focuses on the problem of cultural continuity and discusses the changes that have taken place. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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PublisherSmithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
ISBN-101588340325
ISBN-139781588340320
eBay Product ID (ePID)2199491
Product Key Features
Edition2
Book TitleHold Life Has : Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community
Number of Pages312 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicEthnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions, Latin America / South America
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorCatherine J. Allen
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight15 oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-021013
Reviews"A beautifully written and skillfully constructed example of ethnographic 'thick description.'. . . . Readers will gain much from her richly detailed ethnographic contextualization of . . . basic Andean truisms, since nowhere else in the literature has it been done better."American Anthropologist "So why is this ethnography different from any other ethnography? Because Allen never distances herself from the human dimensions of life in the Andes. From the beginning, the Andeans are fully realized characters, not nameless and faceless informants. . . . This work is humanistic anthropology at its very best. . . It demonstrates in elegant and sometimes poetic prose that there are no substitutes for lived experience in life or in ethnographic prose."Paul Stoller,Anthropology Newsletter "Allen has written an engrossing, sensitive, and highly personal ethnography of the people of Sonqo. . . . Allen succeeds admirably in portraying how Runa use coca to create and maintain social ties and allegiances with each other and their humanized topography."American Ethnologist "This book is true anthropology. It is about people, the people of Sonqo, and how they think and feel, live and die. Allen . . . examines a series of relationships through an analysis of the uses of coca, providing a wealth of ethnographic detail. . . . [A] well-written volume."Latin American Anthropology Review, "A beautifully written and skillfully constructed example of ethnographic 'thick description.'. . . . Readers will gain much from her richly detailed ethnographic contextualization of . . . basic Andean truisms, since nowhere else in the literature has it been done better." American Anthropologist "So why is this ethnography different from any other ethnography? Because Allen never distances herself from the human dimensions of life in the Andes. From the beginning, the Andeans are fully realized characters, not nameless and faceless informants. . . . This work is humanistic anthropology at its very best. . . It demonstrates in elegant and sometimes poetic prose that there are no substitutes for lived experience in life or in ethnographic prose."Paul Stoller, Anthropology Newsletter "Allen has written an engrossing, sensitive, and highly personal ethnography of the people of Sonqo. . . . Allen succeeds admirably in portraying how Runa use coca to create and maintain social ties and allegiances with each other and their humanized topography." American Ethnologist "This book is true anthropology. It is about people, the people of Sonqo, and how they think and feel, live and die. Allen . . . examines a series of relationships through an analysis of the uses of coca, providing a wealth of ethnographic detail. . . . [A] well-written volume." Latin American Anthropology Review
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Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal305.898/323
SynopsisThis second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses on the very real problem of cultural continuity in a changing world, and Allen finds that the hold life has in 2002 is not the same as it was in 1985.
LC Classification NumberF2230.2.K4A45 2002
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