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This book uses a multimethod approach to examine local experience of contemporary mining development in the Peruvian Andes, creating an understanding of the transformations that rural societies experience in this context. Mining is a major component of economic growth in many resource endowed countries, whilst also causing mixed social, cultural, and environmental effects. Most current literature on contemporary mining in Peru is largely focussed on conflict; however, in this text, the author takes a differing approach by examining the experiences of families in the vicinity of Rio Tinto’s La Granja exploration copper project, Northern Peru, an area with great significance due to the minin...
This book uses a multimethod approach to examine local experience of contemporary mining development in the Peruvian Andes, creating an understanding of the transformations that rural societies experience in this context. Mining is a major component of economic growth in many resource endowed countries, whilst also causing mixed social, cultural, and environmental effects. Most current literature on contemporary mining in Peru is largely focussed on conflict; however, in this text, the author takes a differing approach by examining the experiences of families in the vicinity of Rio Tinto's La Granja exploration copper project, Northern Peru, an area with great significance due to the mining ...
This volume focuses on how, why, under what conditions, and with what effects people move across space in relation to mining, asking how a focus on spatial mobility can aid scholars and policymakers in understanding the complex relation between mining and social change. This collection centers the concept of mobility to address the diversity of mining-related population movements as well as the agency of people engaged in these movements. This volume opens by introducing both the historical context and conceptual tools for analyzing the mining-mobility nexus, followed by case study chapters focusing on three regions with significant histories of mineral extraction and where mining currently ...
Este libro presenta el estudio de caso de una comunidad peruana que desafía y amplía la bibliografía existente sobre los impactos de la minería en las comunidades rurales. En este sentido, busca comprender las transformaciones del espacio que las poblaciones rurales experimentan y moldean como respuesta al desarrollo de la minería a gran escala en los Andes peruanos. Así, relata las experiencias y las respuestas de las familias cercanas al proyecto de explotación de cobre La Granja, desarrollado en Cajamarca, en los Andes norteños del Perú, desde que las actividades mineras comenzaron, hace unos 25 años. Más detalladamente, este libro analiza las experiencias locales relacionadas a la tierra y la vivienda (acceso), las actividades agrícolas y no agrícolas (producción) y la historia migratoria (movilidad), así como las imágenes del pasado, presente y futuro (representaciones) que los hombres y las mujeres que viven en las cercanías del proyecto La Granja han construido desde 1994.
El presente libro es resultado de un trabajo de campo realizado por el autor entre 1990 y 1993 en algunas comunidades campesinas de Cusco, ofreciéndonos ricas observaciones etnográficas en las que se pregunta por la importancia individual y social de la embriaguez en los Andes. Siguiendo las ideas de Víctor Turner sobre transformaciones de las estructuras sociales y de Erving Goffman sobre construcción de identidades en relaciones cara a cara, analiza las borracheras como momentos de gran acción que rompen el curso de la vida cotidiana, creando una atmósfera de quiebre de roles y de jerarquías sociales, especialmente en las de género y etnicidad. En términos etnográficos, es imposi...
En su diversidad de enfoques teóricos, entradas metodológicas, escalas espaciales y ciudades elegidas, La ciudad desde la antropología: miradas etnográficas tiene como finalidad proporcionar una muestra de la riqueza de las nuevas miradas e investigaciones etnográficas que antropólogas y antropólogos están produciendo sobre la ciudad contemporánea. Ciertamente, organizados en secciones sobre prácticas, imaginarios e identidades urbanas, los trece estudios de caso que componen esta publicación exploran procesos en metrópolis como Lima, São Paulo, Atenas y Madrid, y en ciudades intermedias del interior del Perú, de la Provincia de Buenos Aires y en Arica. Este volumen, pionero en el país y que surge de la reflexión producida desde el Grupo de Investigación Antropología de la Ciudad de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, constituye un privilegiado caleidoscopio a través del cual es posible avisorar la complejidad, la profundidad y la variedad de nuestras ciudades y sus habitantes con sus cotidianidades, imaginarios y deseos.
Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography of books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of ethnomusicology. The book is divided into two parts; Part One is organised by resource type in catagories of greatest concern to students and scholars. This includes handbooks and guides; encyclopedias and dictionaries; indexes and bibliographies; journals; media sources; and archives. It also offers annotated entries on the basic literature of ethnomusicological history and research. Part Two provides a list of current publications in the field that are widely used by ethnomusicologists. Multiply indexed, this book serves as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared in the field over the past decades.
This book examines how extractivism transforms territories and affects the well-being of rural people, drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted on tree plantations in Chile. The book argues that pine and eucalyptus monoculture plantations in southern Chile are a form of extractivism representing a mode of nature appropriation that captures large amounts of natural resources to produce wooden-based raw materials with little processing and an export-oriented focus. The book discusses the nexus of extractivism, territorial transformations, well-being, and emerging resistances using a participatory action research methodological approach in the Region of Los Ríos, southern Chile. The findings sh...
This volume investigates how mining affects societies and communities in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan. As ex-Soviet states, Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan share history, culture and transitions to democracy. Most importantly, both are mineral-rich countries on China’s frontier and epi-centres of resource extraction. This volume examines challenges communities in these countries encounter on the long journey through resource exploration, extraction and mine closure. The book is organised into three related sections that travel from mine licensing and instigation to early anticipation of benefit through the realisation of social and environmental impacts to finite issues such as jobs, monitoring, disput...