Catherine de Russie

Mas allá del dinero: trueque y economía categorial en un distrito en el Valle del Colca

“…16. Wagner (1978;Allcn 1981;Allen 1986) ha trabajado sistemiticamentc el tcma de la coca, aguardiente y significado cultural de la embriaguez en el mundo andino. Su punto de partida es que la embriaguez desempefia un papel fundamental como forma de intercarnbio social; y ella misma (1978: 173) diferencia entre la coca como una reciprocidad simitrica, y el alcohol como reciprocidad asirnCtrica.…”

history, myth, and the dynamics of territorial maintenance in Tierradentro, Colombia

“…The modern Andean ayllu is quite similar to the Paez notion of ajyu. Although it can be defined as a kin group (Isbell 1978;Mayer 1977) or as a ritually oriented kindred (Ossio 1981), the a y l l u is also any group with a head (Isbell 1978), any locality in which people live (Allen 1981(Allen , 1983Wagner 1976Wagner , 1978. or even a task-oriented group that comes together for a short period of time (Skar 1982;Urton 1984).…”

“…Movement across a terrain and observations from specific vantage points in the high Andes also constitute practices by which territories are expanded or redefined. This is accomplished through pilgrimage (Poole 1984;Wagner 1978;Zuidema 1982a). whereby individuals and groups travel across ayllu boundaries, thereby constituting a larger ayllu from the smaller ones from which they came.…”