Mobility, Markets And Indigenous Socialities: Contemporary Migration In The Peruvian Andes (vitality Of Indigenous Religions)
by Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard /
2010 / English / PDF
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Exploring how people from Andean communities seek progress and
social mobility by moving to the cities, Cecilie Ødegaard
demonstrates the changing significance of kinship, reciprocity and
ritual in an urban context. Through a focus on people´s
involvement in land occupations and local associations, labour and
trade, Ødegaard examines the dialectics between popular practices
and neoliberal state policies in processes of urbanization. The
making and un-making of notions of the Indigenous, communal work,
and gender is central in this analysis, and is discussed against
the historical backdrop of the land occupations in Peruvian cities
since the 1930s. Through its close ethnographic description of
everyday life in a new urban neighbourhood, this book reveals how
social and spatial categories and boundaries are continually
negotiated in people´s quest for mobility and progress. Cecilie
Ødegaard argues that conventional meanings of prosperity and
progress are significantly altered in interaction with Andean
understandings of reciprocity. By combining a unique ethnographic
account with original theoretical arguments, the book provides new
insight into the cultural, cosmological and political dimensions of
mobility, progress and market participation.
Exploring how people from Andean communities seek progress and
social mobility by moving to the cities, Cecilie Ødegaard
demonstrates the changing significance of kinship, reciprocity and
ritual in an urban context. Through a focus on people´s
involvement in land occupations and local associations, labour and
trade, Ødegaard examines the dialectics between popular practices
and neoliberal state policies in processes of urbanization. The
making and un-making of notions of the Indigenous, communal work,
and gender is central in this analysis, and is discussed against
the historical backdrop of the land occupations in Peruvian cities
since the 1930s. Through its close ethnographic description of
everyday life in a new urban neighbourhood, this book reveals how
social and spatial categories and boundaries are continually
negotiated in people´s quest for mobility and progress. Cecilie
Ødegaard argues that conventional meanings of prosperity and
progress are significantly altered in interaction with Andean
understandings of reciprocity. By combining a unique ethnographic
account with original theoretical arguments, the book provides new
insight into the cultural, cosmological and political dimensions of
mobility, progress and market participation.
