Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History among an Andean People
“What Abercrombie gives us is an understanding of how people in an Andean community shape, rethink, and reshape their past.”—Gary Urton, author ofThe History of a Myth: Pacariqtambo and the Origin of the Inkas “A groundbreaking and important contribution to Andean anthropology and history. Among Abercrombie’s aims is bridging the gap between writing and non-writing peoples by confronting history with ethnohistory, and confronting written ethnohistory with the oral traditions and ritual practices through which K’ultas themselves remember their past.”—Florencia E. Mallon, University of Wisconsin–Madison “A major theoretical, ethnographic, and historical contribution to Andean studies. It could well become a classic.”—Paul Gelles, University of California–Riverside