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Browsing Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection by Type "article"
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Awaq nawin: el ojo del tejedor, la practica de la cultura en el tejido
(Cusco : Centro de Estudios Rurales Andinos, Bartolom? de Las Casas, 1992-07) -
Culture Confronts Nature in the Dialectical World of the Tropics
(New York Academy of Science, 1982)As an anthropologist, I would like to suggest that the tropics provide a perceptual environment that promotes and enhances a particular 'science of the concrete, whereby perceived order in the environment is the basis for ... -
The Ontogenesis of Metaphor: Riddle Games among Quechua Speakers Seen as Cognitive Discovery Procedures
(UCLA Latin American Center., 1977)Metaphor, it is argued, plays an important function in cognitive and semantic development of Quechua-speaking children who engage in riddle games. It appears that riddling among the Quechua functions as a discovery procedure ... -
Violence in Peru: Performances and Dialogues
(American Anthropologist, 1998)I wish not only to influence my readers' perceptions of the political violence that has shaken Peru in the last decade and a half, but also to transform the relationship of researchers to such events and the rules of ...
