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... This chapter focuses on those who live in the mountainous margins of civilizational heartlands and, today, in the border areas of modern nation-states. These peoples have been the typical subjects of anthropological research because of their remote, relatively isolated locations, the small scale...

...Comparing Exclusion This chapter focuses on those who live in the mountainous margins of civilizational heartlands and, today, in the border areas of modern nation-states. These peoples have been the typical subjects of anthropological research because of their remote, relatively isolated...

... as “sacred mountain”). Crucially, the knowledges that shaped the Quilish campaigns were not part of an already existing “indigenous tradition,” nor were they simply a set of meanings that environmentalists, scientists, and protestors assigned to a preexisting thing. Rather, their discursive practices...

... Tunupa is among the oldest gods of the people of the southern Andean and Qollasuyu region and is associated with the creative and destructive forces of fire and volcanoes, thunder and lightning. In the classic version of Tunupa’s story, an elderly male figure travels from the north to the south...

... Wright spent the weekend before his departure from Indonesia as a guest of the Konfrontasi Study Club at the mountain villa of the magazine’s founder and principal editor, Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana. Wright’s lecture to the Study Club was later published in English in Konfrontasi...

... Appalachian folk magic traditions, which are widely practiced throughout the mountainous region of the eastern United States, are referred to as granny magic, hillbilly hoodoo, doctoring, and cunning , among other terms. This chapter covers the historical context of granny women and other magic...

... people live with and interpret these industrial ruins. It argues that although the residents relate to the ruins differently depending on their own positions within the towns, their stories share a tendency to treat the ruins as monuments to the promise of temporal progress. As a result, industrial ruins...

... In the Andean highlands, there were as many different origin myths as there were native peoples. Each ethnic group sought to establish its importance through such stories, by claiming to be the first people to appear in the world. Many accounts told of primordial ancestors emerging from local...

... The Andean mountains were long considered colossal physical barriers, their altitude and rugged landscape being seen as serious obstacles to human development. Nevertheless, Andean civilizations creatively converted these apparently adverse topographical and climatic conditions into advantages...

..., Arzáns celebrated a hybrid New World society during the Rich Mountain’s earlier heyday. In this classic tale of cross-dressing and gender-bending, the two young maidens Eustaquia and Ana take on the personae of gallant and virile young men courting adventure on the rough streets of the city. Despite...

... The political instability of late 1950s Cuba occasioned many anguished appeals to the Virgin. As Fidel Castro’s rebels took up positions in the mountains of eastern Cuba to combat Batista’s army, El Cobre was the site of some skirmishes, damaging the Virgin’s shrine. Cuban political discord...

... anguished appeals to the Virgin. As Fidel Castro’s rebels took up positions in the mountains of eastern Cuba to combat Batista’s army, El Cobre was the site of some skirmishes, damaging the Virgin’s shrine. Cuban political discord and civil war often transpired in the streets: the Batista regime alternately...

... of entitlement to resources traditionally denied to Black women and femmes. spiritual co-creation Black witch hoodoo Black feminism Appalachian folk magic traditions, which are widely practiced throughout the mountainous region of the eastern United States, are referred to as granny magic...

... of existentialism, although each of them comes to it by a different route. Wright spent the weekend before his departure from Indonesia as a guest of the Konfrontasi Study Club at the mountain villa of the magazine’s founder and principal editor, Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana. Wright’s lecture to the Study Club...

... For more than a century, Inka territory spread far beyond its home base in Cuzco, reaching north and south along the mountain chain of the Andes. As Pedro Cieza de León’s chronicle attests, the Inka combined military might with symbolic and material enticements to win over the regional Aymara...