Exploring how people from Andean communities seek progress and social mobility by moving to the cities, Cecilie Odegaard demonstrates the changing significance of kinship, reciprocity and ritual in an urban context. Through a focus on people's involvement in land occupations
and local associations, labour and trade, Odegaard examines the dialectics between popular practices and neoliberal state policies in processes of urbanization. The making and un-making of notions of the Indigenous, communal work, and gender is central in this analysis, and is discussed against the historical backdrop of the land occupations in Peruvian cities since the 1930s.Through its close ethnographic description of everyday life in a new urban neighbourhood, this book reveals how social and spatial categories and boundaries are continually negotiated in people's quest for mobility and progress. Cecilie Odegaard argues that conventional meanings of prosperity and progress are significantly altered in interaction with Andean understandings of reciprocity. By combining a unique ethnographic account with original theoretical arguments, the book provides new insight into the cultural, cosmological and political dimensions of mobility, progress and market participation.
- ISBN13 9781409404552
- Publish Date 1 November 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 20 January 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Ashgate Publishing Limited
- Edition New edition
- Format eBook
- Pages 254
- Language English