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Andean Meltdown makes a remarkable contribution to the study of the Andes and of climate change. With rich ethnographic detail, it reveals how environmental instabilities interrelate with changes in ritual practices and offerings to the powerful natural surroundings. A highly original and important work."⏤Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard, author of Mobility, Markets and Indigenous Socialities: Contemporary Migration in the Peruvian Andes and coeditor o...

Andean Meltdown makes a remarkable contribution to the study of the Andes and of climate change. With rich ethnographic detail, it reveals how environmental instabilities interrelate with changes in ritual practices and offerings to the powerful natural surroundings. A highly original and important work."⏤Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard, author of Mobility, Markets and Indigenous Socialities: Contemporary Migration in the Peruvian Andes and coeditor o...

Two contrasting images typically represent 'the poor' in development studies and practice. On the one hand, they are portrayed as those who do not have: deprivation is the quintessence of their identity, the definition of their being. The very notion of 'poor' dooms the bearer to a subordinate, powerless status. Alternatively, they are idealistically depicted as thriving in solidarity, rich traditions and true authentic experience uncontaminat...

This pathbreaking ethnography of population movements between rural and urban places in Peru addresses the conceptual and methodological problems of studying 'deterritorialized' populations and the implications of this for anthropology's notions of culture and identity. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book explores the economic, social and ritual bonds which link migrants in Peru's major cities to their Andean native village. Many urban mig...

Peruvians Dispersed presents an anthropological study of transnational migration to the United States, Spain, Japan and Argentina. Karsten Paerregaard spent a total of one year living with Peruvian migrants in four continents which allowed him to make ethnographic in-depth descriptions of Peru's many migrant communities and at the same time discuss how immigration and labor market policies in the Global North both thwart and spur migration fro...

Peruvians Dispersed presents an anthropological study of transnational migration to the United States, Spain, Japan and Argentina. Karsten Paerregaard spent a total of one year living with Peruvian migrants in four continents which allowed him to make ethnographic in-depth descriptions of Peru's many migrant communities and at the same time discuss how immigration and labor market policies in the Global North both thwart and spur migration fro...