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Contents Illustrations Xl Preface XV 1. Introduction: From Ritual to History and Back Again, Trajectories in Research and Theory 3 History and Memory, Narrative and Landscape 10 Ethnography and History in a Postcolonial Interculture 21 Part One. An Ethnographic Pastorale: Introduction to K'ulta and the Local Sources of History 2. Journeys to Cultural Frontiers 29 From the University of Chicago to La Paz 29 Journey to a Crossroads 37 Cruce: A Cultural Frontier 42 3. The Dialogical Politics of Ethnographic Fieldwork 52 An Ethnographer in Santa Barbara de Culta 52 Getting to Know the Mamanis: Hamlet and Town, Vila Sirka and Santa Barbara 60 Counterethnography: The Roles and Persona of the Ethnographer 67 A Balance Sheet of Cultural Positioning 70 Empathy, Trust, and Murder 78 4. Structures and Histories: K'ulta between Gods and State 82 Ethnographic Border Crossings 82 Council and Corregidor, Ayllu and Canton, Fiestas and Cargos: Some Formal Institutions of K'ulta Life 86 vii Vlll Contents Citizenship in Ayllu and Nation 91 Household and Collective Rituals 97 Culture and the Clandestine 103 Rethinking "Syncretism": Coordinates in Space and Time of a Colonial Interculture 109 From Historical Consciousness to a History of K'ulta 116 Part Two. Historical Paths to K'ulta: An Andean Social Formation from Preinvasion Autonomy to Postrevolution Atomization 5. Pathways of Historical Colonization: Stories of an Andean Past from the Archives of Letters and Landscapes 129 The Conquest Moment: A Conflict of Histories 131 Killaka and Asanaqi in Colonial and Perhaps Inca Times 153 Spanish Pasts and Memory Techniques 164 Recollections of Andean Memory Techniques 170 Narrative Conquests: Spanish Encounters with Mythic Andean Journeys 190 Christianizing Qullasuyu Wanderers: Tunupa as Martyred Apostle 206 6. Colonial Relandscaping of Andean Social Memory 213 From Negotiated Toleration to Heterodox Synthesis and Counter-Reformation Response 213 The Colonial Counter-Reformation of Viceroy Toledo 223 A New Center of the Andean World: Mita Pilgrimages to Potosi 230 Institutions for the Reshaping of Space and Time: Visita, Reducci6n, and Doctrina 237 An Andean Pidgin Baroque: The Counter-Reformation of Intercultural Heresies 258 Indian Sacrifices and Indian Eucharists after Taqui Oncoy 261 Composiciones and Boundaries: Circumambulating New Polities 282 Festivals of Rebellion: Genesis of an Andean "Revolution of the Communities" 291 Liberalism and Ethnocide: From Land Privatization to Cantonization and the Law of Popular Participation 304 [34.205.142.9] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 08:32 GMT) Contents Part Three. Social Memory in K'ulta: A Landscape Poetics of Narrative, Drink, and Saints' Festivals 7. Telling and Drinking the Paths of Memory: Narrative IX and Libation Poetics as Historical Consciousness 317 T"akis of Modern Life: History and Social Memory in K'ulta 317 The Narrated Past: The Solar-Christ Defeats the Supay-Chullpas 322 Space-Time in the Contexts of Everyday Life 332 Amt'an T"aki: "Paths of Memory" Traveled in Drink 344 Ch'allas in Sequence: Amt'an T"aki as Text and Performance 350 Uywa Ispira T"aki: The "Herd Vespers Path" 351 Corn Beer and Cane Liquor in a Concatenated Cosmos 362 8. Living on Tatala's Path: Uses of the Past in Sacrifice and Antisacrifice, Saints' Festivals, and Sorceries 368 The Great Fiesta Paths 368 A Jach'a P"ista Performance: The Events of Guadalupe, September 1982 377 Gods, Men, and Llamas in Herding and Sacrifice: Poetics of a K'ulta Eucharist 396 Inverted Memories: From K"arisiris to Protestants 401 9. Conclusion: Ethnography and History of Social Memory and Amnesia 408 Orality and Literacy, Ethnography and Historiography 408 Historicizing the Colonial and Postcolonial Frontiers 413 Postcolonial Social Memory and (Post?) Modernity 417 Documentary Appendix A. Francisco Pizarro's Grant of Acho and Guarache to Hernando de Aldana 425 B. Juntas de Indios en Pueblos Formados; Alcaldes Hordinarios, Regidores Cadaneros 428 C. Chapters and Ordinances for the Town of Our Lady of Bethlehem 429 D. Extirpation Report of Priest Hernan Gonzales de la Casa (Late Sixteenth Century) 435 E. Circular Letter to Alcaldes of K'ulta, 1781 437 F. Corcino Perez' Petitions to the President of Bolivia, 1894 438 x Notes Glossary References Index Contents 443 516 522 559 ...