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Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric
Through a richly detailed examination of the practices of spinning yarn from the fleece of llamas and alpacas, Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric explores the relationship that herders of the present and of the past have maintained with their herd animals in the Andes. Dransart juxtaposes an ethnography of an Aymara herding community, based on more than ten years fieldwork in Isluga in the Chilean highlands, with archaeological material from excavations in the Atacama desert.Impeccably researched, this book is the first systematic study to set the material culture of pastoral communities against an understanding of the long-term effects of herding practices.
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Earth, Water, Fleece, and Fabric: A Long-Term Ethnography of Camelid Herding in the Andes
Through a richly detailed examination of the practices of spinning yarn from the fleece of llamas and alpacas, Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric explores the relationship that herders of the present and of the past have maintained with their herd animals in the Andes. Dransart juxtaposes an ethnography of an Aymara herding community, based on more than ten years fieldwork in Isluga in the Chilean highlands, with archaeological material from excavations in the Atacama desert.Impeccably researched, this book is the first systematic study to set the material culture of pastoral communities against an understanding of the long-term effects of herding practices.
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Coloured Knowledges: Colour Perception and the Dissemination of Knowledge in Isluga, Northern Chile
Since 1986, I have been doing fieldwork in Isluga in the highlands of northern Chile, east of Iquique and adjacent to the frontier with Bolivia. One of the aspects of Isluga culture that immediately attracted my attention was the way in which people use colour, probably because of my own background of having originally trained at art school. As a practitioner in the use of colour, I have long had reservations about Berlin and Kay's (1969) linguistic theory concerning the evolutionary sequence of what they called Basic Color Terms. However, when in November 1996 I presented the paper on which this article is based, a considerable number of scholars of human vision were already extending Berlin and Kay's research. Most of the contributors to the book edited by Hardin and Maffi (1997) (itself an outcome of a conference held in 1992) accepted Berlin and Kay's work on linguistic anthropology. In his chapter, however, Lucy (1997) warned against conflating cognitive and linguistic categories. More recently, Saunders (2000) has published a sustained review of Berlin and Kay 1969, their subsequent revisions and the research of colour scientists who have adapted their premises. She argues that these researchers have established a ‘scientific reality [that] replaces ordinary reality with a “data-base” of encodings and theoretical models’ (Saunders 2000: 89). In contrast, she perceives colour to exist ‘through noticings and reportings as an ensemble of social relations’ (Saunders 2000: 93). This is a view with which I have considerable sympathy. Therefore, I wish to begin my chapter by giving the reader some insights into my experiences of ethnographic fieldwork in the Andes, starting with issues that Isluga people have expressed to me without my prompting, as a grounding for developing an analysis of some of the ways in which they use colour, and to which my training has sensitised me.
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Llamas, herders and the exploitation of raw materials in the Atacama Desert
South American camelid societies and human societies have coexisted over a long period of time in the Andes. The archaeological sites considered here are located in the Atacama Desert and cover a period from c. 5,000 years ago to c. 1,500 years ago. This time span saw changes in resource exploitation and the adoption of pastoralism. Camelids provide humans with important raw materials, and the question of what difference owning one's animals over hunting wild camelids should have on the exploitation of raw materials, particularly fleece, is examined in the context of the Atacama environment.
Journal Article