The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru

ISBN-13: 9781138403444 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Kent V. Flannery

Opis

An ethnographic study of five Ilma herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru. It contains a detailed study of the waytakuy Ilama marking ceremony. It evaluates the role of this ceremony in preventing herds from going to extinction against anthropological and sociobiological theory.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Andean Nature; Chapter 3 Andean Culture; Chapter 4 The People of the Puna; Chapter 5 The Guanaco and the Llama; Chapter 6 Herd Dynamics I: The “Oliver Twist” Model; Chapter 7 Herd Dynamics II: The “Santa Claus” Model; Chapter 8 Chupa and Waytakuy; Chapter 9 Herd Dynamics III: The “Surf City” Model; Chapter 10 Herd Dynamics IV: Suñay and Adaptation; Chapter 11 Suñay and Dual Inheritance Theory; Chapter 12 Nature, Culture, and Practical Reason;

O autorze

Robert G Reynolds, Kent V Flannery, Joyce Marcus