Name: Gods and Vampires: Return to Chipaya (en Inglés)
Price: 55790.00 CLP
Availability: InStock
Author: Nathan Wachtel
ISBN: 9780226867649

portada Gods and Vampires: Return to Chipaya (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Chicago Press

Autor

Nathan Wachtel

Año

1994

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

164

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0226867641

ISBN13

9780226867649

N° edición

Categorías

Sudamérica
Historia de américa

Gods and Vampires: Return to Chipaya (en Inglés)

Nathan Wachtel (Autor) · University Of Chicago Press · Tapa Blanda

Libro Nuevo

$ 55.790

$ 77.490

Ahorras: $ 21.700

28% descuento

Envío normal

Origen: Estados Unidos (Costos de importación incluídos en el precio)

Se enviará desde nuestra bodega entre el Viernes 17 de Mayo y el Martes 28 de Mayo.

Lo recibirás en cualquier lugar de Chile entre 1 y 3 días hábiles luego del envío.

Reseña del libro "Gods and Vampires: Return to Chipaya (en Inglés)"

When Nathan Wachtel, the distinguished historical anthropologist, returned to the village of Chipaya, the site of his extensive fieldwork in the Bolivian Andes, he learned a group of Uru Indians was being incarcerated and tortured for no apparent reason. Even more strangely, no one—not even his closest informant and friend—would speak about it. Wachtel discovered that a series of recent deaths and misfortunes in Chipaya had been attributed to the evil powers of the Urus, a group usually regarded with suspicion by the other ethnic groups. Those incarcerated were believed to be the chief sorcerers and vampires whose paganistic practices had brought death to Chipaya by upsetting the social order. Wachtel's investigation, told in Gods and Vampires: Back to Chipaya, reveals much about relations between the Urus and the region's dominant ethnic groups and confronts some of the most trenchant issues in contemporary anthropology. His analysis shows that the Urus had become victims of the same set of ideals the Spanish had used, centuries before, to establish their hegemony in the region. Presented as a personal detective story, Gods and Vampires is Wachtel's latest work in a series studying the ongoing impact of the Spanish conquest on the Andean consciousness and social system. Its insight into Bolivian society and the legacy of hegemony confronts some of the most trenchant issues in contemporary anthropologyand will be of great interest to scholars of anthropology, Latin American studies, and Native American studies.