Lives together--worlds apart
Subtitle: Quechua colonization in jungle and city
By: Sarah Lund Skar.
Series: Oslo studies in social anthropology
Publisher: Scandinavian University Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Oslo, Norway; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Quechua Indians -- Colonization.; Indians of South America -- Social life and customs.
Description: In this book the author seeks to understand the deep and subtle frameworks of meaning in the disparate experiences of, on the one hand, migrant Peruvian highlanders settled in Lima and, on the other, the village community in the jungle region of Chanchamayo they have left. Focusing on traditional conceptions of separation and connectedness (frequent themes expressed in the thoughts and actions of migrants from the village of Matapuquio), this Andean ethnography addresses questions of general interest concerning individual identity in collectivities undergoing transformation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-290) and index.