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... exhausted Yanacocha mine). The project was originally approved by former president Alan García and would endanger four large highland Andean lagoons in the region, generating the largest and most important socio-environmental conflict thus far under that government. © 2016 Duke University Press 2016...

..., particularly to the Andean states. In Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venzuela, the Indians form not only a major sector of the population but also the basis for a rigid social class system to which the Andean variant of caudillismo is essentially geared. This class system exhibits three fairly well-defined com­...

... history, Indians are depicted as being outside elite fac- tionalism and national politics, separated by an all-­embracing “Andean culture” thought to be remote from historical time and modern politics.12 These ways of seeing the Federal War prevent us from exploring how the formation...

... of paradoxes. Throughout history, the modernizing efforts of the Europeanized elites in the Andean region resulted in successive waves of recoloniza- tion. One example is the Bourbon reforms that both preceded...

... a journal, Revista Acontecimiento, which is dedicated to formulating and circulating new political thought-­ action. Many of the collective’s texts can be accessed in Spanish at www .grupoacontecimiento.com.ar. Raquel Gutiérrez is a professor of sociology at the Center for Andean and Mesoamerican...

... as a testimonial of indigenous and mestizo life in the Andes. The participants at the roundtable, however, criticized the novel as nothing but the wistful portrayal of a bygone society. The disagreement centered around the question of how to characterize the popular element of Andean societies...

... that the Andean community is not a democratic one but rather a form of “consensual authoritarianism.”3 To be honest, I do not advocate democratic forms as if they were superior to others. The family cannot function democratically because not all members have the same responsibilities and duties...

... (Figure 26). This time, the observer will be placed toward the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth centuries in the Andes and will have a concept of space rooted in ancient Andean cosmology. Let s think about how the world might have looked for someone of Amerindian origin from...

... of twenty nations. An entry in a college catalogue is instructive. Recent History of Latin America: Latin American geography; some general patterns in Latin American history of the last century; Mexico and its revolution; in contrast the Andean republics; European South America Argentina and Chile; Brazil...

... was submitted to arithmetical laws in view of pacification, expansion, agricultural growth, defense, and works. The Incan empire could be pan-Andean because it was a system, a pyramid with a decagonal base. Thus, the origin of this system, understood as arche and as principle, permits us...

... Popul Vuh, for instance, to the con­ temporary testimonio by Guatemalan indigenous activist Rigoberta Menchu, or from the pre-Colombian Inca state to the Spanish con­ Humanities for the Future 23 quest (through Andean eyes) to the great Andean rebellions of the 1780s to the contemporary Quechua poetry...

..., insomuch as they coincide in the illusory pursuit of some magical synthesis: Maoism with the Andean utopias, in the first case; colonial Catholicism with a hierarchical conception of the family and of society, in the second. Both suppose, like so many fundamen­ talist groups, that their dogmas would...

...-Andean popular movement. Santiago Maldonado's name was brought together with that of Macarena Valdés Muñoz, a socioenvironmental activist who had also died during strange circumstances during the month of August, but one year earlier, in the midst of an environmental conflict against...

..., the Indians have resisted transfer from the Andean Altiplano, which at 14,000 feet is one of the least attractive areas in which to live in the world. But the Indian has learned how to coax a small frostresistant potato out of the rocky soil and to raise a skinny breed of sheep. The living is bare and cold...

..., an occasional patch of forest, and some minor settlements. They might have noticed the trans-­Andean oil pipeline through the rolling hills, with an occasional glimpse of the Andes carving their cloud-­shrouded silhouette out of the azure sky, perpetually releasing the waters...

... transnational network is the Andean Coordi- nator of Indigenous Organizations, which has brought together organiza- tions from Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and Chile since 2006 to advocate for the creation of an environmental crimes tribunal. Finally, there are various research observatories dedicated...

... Plaza de Mayo. In the surrounding streets, popular commerce encroaches onto the immense Avenida Rivadavia. At the stalls, various prod- ucts are bought and sold that make the transnational migrations between Argentina and the Andean highlands visible. Daily life flows in a triumph of gestures, sounds...

... the soul of the listener. The Huaino, the ancient funeral music of the Quechuas, still echoes over the Andean ridges, and the Yuriparis, the wistful ritualistic songs of the Amazon, roll through far jungles to the sound of flutes and drums. In upper Paraguay deep in a jungle clearing, we listened...

... frontier emerging in its own hemisphere. We are aware of the sit­ uation in Guatemala and of recent events in British Guiana. In South America, Bolivia, the land-locked Andean republic rich in minerals, is experiencing economic, political, and social change. An extremely nationalistic government came...

... The Andean nations made up one region: poor, populated by Indian majorities, technologically back- ward, and residually colonial in their social relations (servile labor, patri- monialism, and large landed estates). The other group was made up of the progressive nations of the Southern Cone...