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Writing National Cinema traces the twenty-year history of the Peruvian film journal Hablemos de cine alongside that of Peruvian filmmaking and film culture. Similar to the influential French journal Cahiers du cinema, Hablemos de cine began with a group of young critics interested in claiming the director's use of mise-en-scene as the exclusive method of film analysis rather than thematic or star-oriented topics -- hence, the title of the publication, derived from their battle cry at post-screening discussions: "Let's talk about film." Their critical authority grew with the rise of local filmmaking and the nationalist fervor of the late 1960s and early 1970s. When government sponsorship spurred feature filmmaking in the mid-1970s, their perspective eschewed the politically militant readings that characterized most writing and film from the rest of Latin America at the time. By the 1980s, the critics at Hablemos de cine had helped to engender a commercial, Hollywood-influenced cinematic vision--best exemplified by Peruvian auteur Francisco Lombardi--and stimulated a unique, if isolating, national identity through film. The first book-length study of Peruvian film culture to appear in English, Middents's work offers thoughtful consideration of the impact of criticism on the visual stylings of a national cinema. ... Read more

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Examines the geography, history, government, people, and culture of Peru. ... Read more

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During the Middle Horizon (600-1000), the Wari civilization swept across the central Andes. The nature and importance of this civilization has long been debated by archaeologists. For many, Wari was an empire governed by people living at the site of Huari in the central highlands of Peru. Some scholars, however, have long argued that the spread of Wari artifacts, architecture, and influence can be explained by other kinds of interregional interactions. The scholars whose work is assembled here attempt to better understand the nature of Wari by examining its impact beyond Wari walls. By studying Wari from a village in Cuzco, a water shrine in Huamachuco, or a compound on the Central Coast, these authors provide us with information that cannot be gleaned from either digs around the city of Huari or work at the major Wari installations in the periphery. This book provides no definitive answers to the Wari phenomena, but it contributes to broader debates about interregional influences and interaction during the emergence of early cities and states throughout the world. The contributors include Ulrike Matthies Green and Paul Goldstein (UC San Diego), Bruce Owen (Sonoma State University), Veronique Belisle (University of Michigan), R. Alan Covey (Southern Methodist University), Christina Conlee (Texas State University), Giancarlo Marcone (University of Pittsburgh), Rafael Segura Llanos and Izumi Shimada (Southern Illinois University), Frank Meddens (University of London), Nicholas Branch (University of Reading), Kit Nelson (Tulane University), Nathan Craig (Pennsylvania State University), Manuel Perales (Proyecto Arqueologico Norte Chico), Theresa Lange Topic (Brescia University College), John Topic (Trent University), Claude Chapdelaine (Universite de Montreal), William Isbell (SUNY Binghamton), and the editor. ... Read more

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People of the Ucayali describes the cultures of two closely related language groups in the Peruvian Amazon: the Shipibo and Conibo. It shares personal observations of their subsistence and economic, social,and political organization. This book looks at their view of medicine and the supernatural and discusses their life cycles.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Preface

1. Instruction
History
Acculturation

2. Subsistence
Hunting and Fishing
Agriculture
Animal Husbandry
Food Preparation and Consumption

3. Economic Organization and manufacture
External Economic Relations
Property
Manufacture
Transportation

4. Arts, Dress, and Recreation
Attire
Music and Dance
Celebrations

5. Political and Social Organization
Authority Structure
Offences and Sanctions
Social and Residential Structure
Kinship Terminology
Marriage
Clans

6. Man and the Supernatural
Myth
The Spiritual World
Man s Spirit
Magical Plants

7. Medicine
Medical Conditions
Ethnomedicine
Western Medicine

8. Life Cycle
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Childhood
Formal Education
Puberty
Marriage Preparations
Married Life
Termination of Marriage
Death
End of Mourning
Remarriage

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Great book!
This book was written by my husband's grandfather and great-grandfather who were two very intelligent men with a great love of this tribe and intelligence and imagination to match.I have seen many linguistic students use this book as a source for their papers, and know for someone interested in studying this regions languages, it is an indispensible source of first-hand knowledge.

At Least It's True
This is a broad description of the culture of the Shipibo and Conibo Indians of the lowland rain forest of eastern Peru.It is based on at least fifty person years of face to face linguistic, evangelical, and education work with the Indians by three men and women of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL). Plus, it has a Spanish version.Its virtue is that practically all the details I can personally verify are true, and it provides a framework for understanding a living people in an exotic environment. Its heartbreak is that it is so short and its detailed descriptions stand like isolated nuggets whose foci are unfortunately variable.The kinship terminology enjoys the only analysis and the most detail in the book. The report that most delighted me, recalling the work of Jared Diamond on the collisions of civilizations, is that Shipibo-Conibo people are actively domesticating their main game animals including peccary, capybara, and paca, but this is a very shallow area of the book.The SIL'ers - secretive until the end! ... Read more

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This book is the first in more than a decade to provide new information on the Chavín phenomenon of ancient Peru. Thought by some to be the "Mother Culture" of ancient Peruvian cultures, Chavín is remarkable for its baroque, sophisticated art style in a variety of media including, finely carved stone monuments, beautifully formed pottery, and magnificent and complex metallurgy. Chapters in this book cover new interpretations of the history of the site of Chavín de Huantar, studies of related cultures, the role of shamanism, and many other topics of interest to specialists and the general reader, alike. ... Read more

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"Pastoral Quechua is an entryway into the world of colonial Quechua culture through language, showing how Spanish missionaries did not merely translate Christianity into the Inka language, but built up new and complex syntheses of Inka and Spanish worlds. A foundational work, it opens up new and untouched ways of understanding the impact of European colonialism in the Americas, making a singular contribution to colonial history, to historical linguistics, and to the anthropology of colonialism." ----Bruce Mannheim, University of Michigan
"By building seamlessly upward from the fine filigree of grammar to daring revisions of history, Durston unveils a fateful chapter in the formation of Andean culture. Pastoral Quechua stands alongside Johannes Fabian's work on Swahili, Vicente Rafael's on Tagalog, and Serge Gruzinski's on Nahuatl as a cardinal study of how early-modern language struggles fatefully shaped speech, literacy, and authority among non-European peoples." ----Frank Salomon, John V. Murra Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Pastoral Quechua is a wonderful volume that will be of interest to a broad range of scholars including historians, linguists, and anthropologists, as well as scholars in all fields interested in Peru. The study focuses on the practice of translation, as the author states, but it is much more than that. It is a meticulously researched work that provides careful linguistic analysis conceptualized within a historical study of Catholic evangelization in colonial Peru." ----Thomas B. F. Cummins, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art, Harvard University
Pastoral Quechua tells the story of how the Catholic church in post-conquest Peru attempted to "incarnate" Christianity in Quechua, the principal language family of the former Inca empire. These efforts resulted in the development and imposition of an official, standardized form of Quechua and of an extensive catechetical, liturgical, and devotional literature for use in parishes throughout the Andes. The book explores this Quechua-language Christian literature from historical, linguistic, and textual angles to reveal missionary translation as a highly strategic and contested activity on the front lines of Spanish colonialism in the Andes. ... Read more

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Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial society.


Scholars have long assumed that Spanish rule remained largely undisputed in Peru between the 1570s and 1780s, but educated elite Indians and mestizos challenged the legitimacy of Spanish rule, criticized colonial injustice and exclusion, and articulated the ideas that would later be embraced in the Great Rebellion in 1781. Their movement extended across the Atlantic as the scholars visited the seat of the Spanish empire to negotiate with the king and his advisors for social reform, lobbied diverse networks of supporters in Madrid and Peru, and struggled for admission to religious orders, schools and universities, and positions in ecclesiastic and civil administration.


Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" explores how scholars contributed to social change and transformation of colonial culture through legal, cultural, and political activism, and how, ultimately, their significant colonial critiques and campaigns redefined colonial public life and discourse. It will be of interest to scholars and students of colonial history, colonial literature, Hispanic studies, and Latin American studies. ... Read more

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The aim of this research is to reconstruct the landscape evolution in the lower Rio Grande drainage basin during the Late Holocene and to detect interrelations between landscape evolution, cultural development, climatic changes and extreme events. Central to this is to identify and, if possible, quantify factors of landscape change. In doing so, the author differentiates natural from anthropogenic factors, i.e. to determine both the natural and the human impacts on the landscape. An important question is whether climatic changes and extreme events have had an in?uence on past societies. To answer these questions, this work goes beyond physical geography approaches to paleoenvironmental reconstruction and includes the wealth of archaeological evidence and interpretations available for the research area. The volume consists of a main section and an extensive appendix containing sketches and detailed interpretations of the investigated sediment pro?les as well as graphs showing the results of the laboratory analyses. ... Read more

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Published in cooperation with The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois When Alfred Kroeber left Lima, Peru for the ruins of the Nazca region in July 1926, he could have had no inkling of the importance of what he would uncover. Nor would he have guessed that his excavation report would not appear until the end of the century, completed by Donald Collier and Patrick Carmichael after Kroeber's death in 1960. Kroeber's report contains what is still the only complete analysis and seriation of the beautiful painted pottery of Nazca, complete with over 400 photographs and drawings of objects uncovered in the excavations, some in full color. His report is also notable for its rare discussion of Nazca architecture, its description of cloth, hair bundles and other artifact groups, its accurate analysis of Nazca human remains, and even for one of the earliest descriptions and photographs of the famous Nazca lines. With careful editing by Collier and Carmichael, Kroeber's work is far ahead of its time methodologically and is still an important source document for contemporary archaeology and art history of South America. A final chapter by Katharina J. Schreiber puts Kroeber's work in the context of contemporary Nazca studies, including a reassessment of the sites discovered in the 1926 expedition. Important for both professional and avocational anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, and those interested in the history of anthropology. ... Read more

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THE UNWRITTEN STORY IS MORE INTERESTING THAN THE WRITTEN
The greater value of the book Archaeology and Potterry of Naska, Peruis an "other" discourse to be found not in the written lines, but rather between them, easily perceivable to the knowledgable reader.Thesource that informs the tale, yet to be told, is a book listed twice in thebibliography: Peru Antiguo: espacio y tiempo. It is the entry recordedunder the name Lorenzo Rossello that leads the willing and wantingresearcher toward a Peruvian perspective, ignored by the editors of thisbook: a Chanka style, pre-Wari.Sustained attention, directed toward thatbibilographical entry, as well as that of the late peruvian archaeologistToribio Mexjia Xesspe, mentor of Rossello,suggests a contradiction withthe following statement, "Tello, at about the same time, inverted thesequence, calling the B phase pre-Nazca, and the A, Nazca; but he did notelaborate or press his view" (Carmichael 1999: 26).In fact, anarticle written by Mejia Xesspe deals with the puquios of Naska and Chanka(see Mejia Xesspe, 1946, Folklore No. 16, Lima).That is why a widerencounter with the theme Nazka/Chanka could bring with it the necessary andserious questioning of the methodology of contemporary academia and itsrelation to politics, of post-processal archaeology and so-called PostModernism, itself.

Those searching for a ground from which to begin tounderstand can find it in the article "From Social Archaeology toNational Archaeology" up from domination", American AntiquityVol. 64 No. 2 to be released May 17 by the Society for AmericanArchaeology. ... Read more

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Peru Unit study lesson plan is a hands on interactive journey to Peru; it is for kids of all ages to enjoy hours of learning fun. I have been teaching this unit to children ages 5-14. You will learn about modern day culture, geography, architecture, religion, government, celebration, history and much more. Each unit is internet linked with endless possibilities to what you can learn. Here you will find everything that you need to get you started on your journey, including directions to crafts, activities, interactive printable forms, colorful pictures and discussion questions, material lists and preparation instructions as well as other ideas to take you farther on your journey in the exploration of Peru. Among these are step by step directions on how to make a Andean house, weaving lesson, Yunza tree and much more. This unit can be done individually or with a group of various aged children and each Culture Quest Unit Study can stand alone. ... Read more

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In this vivid ethnography set in contemporary Peru, Susan Stokes provides a compelling analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. Her research strategy is multifaceted; through interviews, participant observation, and survey research she digs deeply into the popular culture of the social activists and shantytown residents she studies. The result is a penetrating look at how social movements evolve, how poor people construct independent political cultures, and how the ideological domination of oppressed classes can shatter.
This work is a new and vital chapter in the growing literature on the formation of social movements. It chronicles the transformation of Peru's poor from a culture of deference and clientelism in the late 1960s to a population mobilized for radical political action today. ... Read more

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Volume: Fieldiana, Anthropology, v.44, no.1Publisher: [Chicago] Chicago Natural History MuseumPublication date: 1954Subjects: Indians of South America -- PeruMounds -- Peru MarangaMaranga, PeruPeru -- AntiquitiesNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more