The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community

by Allen, Catherine J.

• ISBN13: 9781588340320
• ISBN10: 1588340325
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781588343598
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-17
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books
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Summary

This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive 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 in a changing world, and Allen finds that the hold life has in 2002 is not the same as it was in 1985.

Author Biography

Catherine J. Allen was the recipient of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship Award and is professor of anthroplogy and international affairs at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She is the coauthor with nathan Garner of Condor Qatay: Anthropology in Performance (1996).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Preface to the Second Edition	xi
Preface to the First Edition	xiii
Introduction	1	(21)
Water, Stones, and Light: A Cosmology	22	(27)
The Web of Reciprocity	49	(26)
``And Then in That Sun'': The Ayllu	75	(27)
Coca Knows	102	(12)
Drinking Together	114	(13)
Rites of the Household	127	(23)
Rites of the Ayllu	150	(24)
Yawar Mayu: Blood River	174	(10)
Coca and Cultural Identity	184	(12)
Epilogue Rufina's Children	196	(7)
Afterword to the Second Edition ``No Somes Indios Ahora''	203	(45)
Appendix A A Note on Orthography	248	(2)
Appendix B Kinship Terminology	250	(6)
Notes	256	(16)
Glossary	272	(6)
References	278	(13)
Index	291