The Struggle for Water in Peru
The Struggle for Water in Peru

Author: Paul B. Trawick

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0804731381

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This ecological history of peasant society in the Peruvian Andes focuses on the politics of irrigation and water management in three villages whose terraces and canal systems date back to Inca times. Set in a remote valley, the book tells a story of domination and resulting social decline, showing how basic changes in the use of land, water, and labor have been pivotal in transforming the indigenous way of life. The author carries out a comparison of contemporary practices in communities that vary systematically along certain dimensions. He analyzes the communities’ similarities and differences in hydraulic organization, landscaping, water use, and other variables. Strikingly diverse patterns appear in local practice, which prove to be the key to unraveling the area’s history. The book concludes by describing the recent intensification of a water conflict. This struggle between peasants and former landlords ultimately led villagers to rise up against the national government. The story culminates in the violent intrusion of the revolutionary group known as Shining Path.

The Jesuit Missions to China and Peru, 1570-1610
The Jesuit Missions to China and Peru, 1570-1610

Author: Ana Carolina Hosne

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-04

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1135018340

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The rulers of the overseas empires summoned the Society of Jesus to evangelize their new subjects in the ‘New World’ which Spain and Portugal shared; this book is about how two different missions, in China and Peru, evolved in the early modern world. From a European perspective, this book is about the way Christianity expanded in the early modern period, craving universalism. In China, Matteo Ricci was so impressed by the influence that the scholar-officials were able to exert on the Ming Emperor himself that he likened them to the philosopher-kings of Plato’s Republic. The Jesuits in China were in the hands of the scholar-officials, with the Emperor at the apex, who had the power to decide whether they could stay or not. Meanwhile, in Peru, the Society of Jesus was required to impose Tridentine Catholicism by Philip II, independently of Rome, a task that entailed compliance with the colonial authorities’ demands. This book explores how leading Jesuits, Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) in China and José de Acosta (1540-1600) in Peru, envisioned mission projects and reflected them on the catechisms they both composed, with a remarkable power of endurance. It offers a reflection on how the Jesuits conceived and assessed these mission spaces, in which their keen political acumen and a certain taste for power unfolded, playing key roles in envisioning new doctrinal directions and reflecting them in their doctrinal texts.

Light of the Andes
Light of the Andes

Author: J. E. Williams

Publisher:

Published: 2012-04

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781617203749

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"A work of hybrid ethnography and spiritual anthropology about the teachings of Ayni, the Q'ero way of knowledge and being. It is not a record of events and things. Rather, it forms a personal narrative, an allegory of seeking and discovery that documents the events that lead to the journey and high-altitude initiation on Ausangate with the traditional Q'ero shaman and wisdom keeper, Sebastian Pauccar Flores, in 2008."--Pref.

Chinese Bondage in Peru
Chinese Bondage in Peru

Author: Watt Stewart

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2018-12-05

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1789126533

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THE CENTURY just passed has witnessed a great movement of the sons of China from their huge country to other portions of the globe. Hundreds of thousands have fanned out southwestward, southward, and southeastward into various parts of the Pacific world. Many thousands have moved eastward to Hawaii and beyond to the mainland of North and South America. Other thousands have been borne to Panama and to Cuba. The movement was in part forced, or at least semi-forced. This movement was the consequence of, and it likewise entailed, many problems of a social and economic nature, with added political aspects and implications. It was a movement of human beings which, while it has had superficial notice in various works, has not yet been adequately investigated. It is important enough to merit a full historical record, particularly as we are now in an era when international understanding is of such extreme moment. The peoples of the world will better understand one another if the antecedents of present conditions are thoroughly and widely known. The present study has particular reference to the transference of Chinese to Peru and to their experiences in that country. As such it can make no claim to being exhaustive of the general subject. However, the author hopes that this work may become a definitive chapter of the greater story. If others co-operate, eventually some scholar will be able to make a synthesis of the whole. It will be an absorbing story when finished, one with many overtones of personal tragedy and with its unadmirable elements of personal greed and inhumanity.—Watt Stewart

Chavín
Chavín

Author: Peter Fux

Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783858817310

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Curated by Peter Fux, with the scientific advice of Luis Guillermo Lumbreras and John W. Rick. A reprint in Spanish of the original title Chavín. Peruœs Enigmatic Temple in the Andesʺ published by The Rietberg Museum(Zürich, Switzerland) in 2012, comprising seventeen essays by the main Peruvian and foreign researchers dedicated to the study of the archaic and formative in the Central Andes periods. The volume includes in addition a catalogue dedicated to the pieces displayed in the exhibition, as well as other individual texts that recognize the artistic and aesthetic quality of art produced in this time.

Indians of the Andes
Indians of the Andes

Author: Harold Osborne

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1136544453

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This book traces the history and ecology of the Aymaras and the Quechuas: the highland peoples of the Central Andes, who formed the nucleus of the great Inca Empire which extended for two thousand miles along the Pacific coast to the fringes of the tropical interior. In twenty millennia the Indians of the Andes had had no cultural contacts with the Old World yet they had already passed independently through stages of development usually associated with the Neolithic Age and had achieved a degree of technical and artistic excellence. In four centuries of contact there has of course been appreciable acculturation and osmosis. Originally published in 1952.