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The hold life has [electronic resource] : coca and cultural identity in an Andean community / Catherine J. Allen.

by Allen, Catherine J.

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Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.

Quechua Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.

Quechua Indians -- Social life and customs.

Coca -- Social aspects -- Peru.

Sonco (Peru) -- Social life and customs.

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9781588343598 (electronic bk.)

1588343596 (electronic bk.)

1 online resource : ill.

Ch. 1. Water, stones, and light: a cosmology -- Ch. 2. The web of reciprocity -- Ch. 3. "And then in that sun": the Ayllu -- Ch. 4. Coca knows -- Ch. 5. Drinking together -- Ch. 6. Rites of the household -- Ch. 7. Rites of the Ayllu -- Ch. 8. Yawar Mayu: blood river -- Ch. 9. Coca and cultural identity -- Epilogue: Rufina's children -- Afterword to the second edition: "No Somos Indios Ahora" -- App. A. A note on orthography.

"This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000, and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses on the very real problem of cultural continuity of a changing world, and Allen finds that the hold life has in 2002 is not the same as it was in 1985."--BOOK JACKET.

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