Tristan Platt

El feto agresivo: Parto, formación de la persona y mito-historia en los Andes

Resumen es: Partiendo de un estudio etnografico y linguistico sobre la mortalidad materna en Bolivia, este trabajo etno-obstetrico trata de la concepcion, la gesta...

Simón Bolívar, the Sun of Justice and the Amerindian Virgin: Andean Conceptions of the Patria in Nineteenth-Century Potosí

How did the indian majority in early republican Bolivia interpret the transformation of the colonial Audiencia of Charcas into an independent nation-state ? How was the new republican age and its symbols reconciled with the forms of social organisation and belief which had emerged from the meeting between native Andean civilisation and the Spanish colonial state?

ENTRE LA RUTINA Y LA RUPTURA: EL ARCHIVO COMO ACONTECIMIENTO DE TERRENO

Se trata el problema de la caracterizacion teorica del archivo, y de los usos de archivos de diferentes instancias y tamanos, en el proceso de realizar trabajo etnografico y etnohistorico. Enfatizando su posicion epistemologica entre rutina (cotidiana) y ruptura (epistemica), y a partir del trabajo de varios teoricos de lo archivistico, se examina un archivo indigena que trastorna un concepto de tiempo lineal, y se replantea la relacion entre el documento y la memoria.

OLIVIA HARRIS (1948-2009), CATEDRÁTICA DE ANTROPOLOGÍA EN LA LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

Resulta dificil para nosotros descifrar las intenciones detras de los escritos de Olivia, sin considerar como se relacionaban sus textos con su vida, cuando esta fue no solo una colega sino una querida amiga a lo largo de mas de treinta anos. Naturalmente, esto no significa que sus textos no sean comprensibles por si solos. Pero en el caso de Olivia, la multiplicidad de sus centros de interes se combinaron y entretejieron intimamente con su vida, correspondiendo a distintos periodos, o mejor dicho

Caccheo y minería mediana en las provincias de Potosí: Lípez y Porco (1830-1850)

The article examines small and medium silver mining in two provinces of Potosi (Bolivia) during the early Republic, situating it between state buying, minting policies and smuggling via the “silver road” to Salta and the Chilean coast. The role of the Bolivian providers of small loans is identified, who then collected and sent ounces of silver from the local refineries to the Mining Bank. The mechanisms of mining accumulation (without recourse to foreign capitals) are analyzed, showing how the “share-cropping” arrangement between the mine owner and his Indian “associates” (cacchas) could be transformed into a “regular” relationship between boss and day laborer. Finally, I compare two middle-mining businesses, Siporo and Huanchaca, both were united against State interference in labor relations, especially President Santa Cruz’s efforts to introduce a new Mining Code in defense of the workers.

The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic

* List of Figures and Tables * Acknowledgments *1. Anthropology and the Philosophy of Arithmetic *2. The Cardinal Numbers and Their Social Relations *3. Ordinal Numerals: The Reproduction and Succession of Numbers *4. Yupay: Counting, Recounting, and the Fabric of Numbers *5. Quechua Arithmetic as an Art of Rectification *6. Numbers and Arithmetic in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Andean Societies *7. Conclusions * Appendix: Quechua Number Symbols and Metaphors Notes * Bibliography Index