To ensure sustainable endogenous development of the Andean region, research on and for the dominant mountain range of South America is of crucial importance. As of 2021, the Revista de Investigaciones Altoandinas -Journal of High Andean Research adopts a reformed editorial policy and presents a relaunch of its publishing portal, with the aim to foster sustainable development in and for the Andean region.
Mountain regions face decisive challenges, not only for their sustainable development but also for their very reproduction. These challenges have to do with the increasingly serious impact of climate and environmental change, the impact of socioeconomic and cultural globalization on mountain populations and the ecosystems they inhabit, and the effects of urbanization on mountain agriculture. Based on these premises, this article introduces the notion of "montology" by investigating, on the one hand, the historical development of the term and, on the other, by presenting the essential principles of a perspective committed to building a real transdisciplinarity in mountain studies. Finally, through the example of urbanization and its impact on Andean agriculture, we intend to highlight the need to adopt a montological perspective in order to contribute to the analysis of human-environmental problems and to the sustainable development of the region.
This article describes and analyzes important aspects of the relationship between the urban and the rural in the south of the Peruvian department of Puno. The author argues that the assumed arbitrariness of the border between the countryside and the city, between the urban and the rural, is extremely widespread and that Andean peasant communities are undergoing more and more integrating processes at different levels which, rather than determining the disintegration of these communities, are resulting in their redefinition. Kinship networks create flows that include people within much broader contexts than in the past, and both cities and peasant communities can be seen to exist within forms of modernity that do not necessarily correspond to Euro‐American patterns.
<p>El propósito del presente artículo es discutir, a partir de una investigación etnográfica, el papel del Día de los Muertos en el altiplano aymara peruano, conectándolo con la identidad vivida por los y las actrices sociales involucrados. La investigación etnográfica tuvo lugar en la comunidad de San Miguel de Alpaccollo (en ese entonces, 2013 y 2014. parcialidad), en el distrito de Ilave, provincia de El Collao, departamento de Puno. En el curso del texto se mostrarán de forma detallada los tres años en que se “tiene” una machaqa alma (“alma nueva”), duración que corresponde al luto para una familia. Finalmente, se discutirá el papel de las y los niños como símbolos de los antepasados y su vinculación con la reconstrucción periódica de la identidad colectiva comunitaria. </p>
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