Titlebook: Returning to Q‘ero; Sustaining Indigenei Steven Webster Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license

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2945-6657 ecological sustainability and mining extractivism.Analyzes t.In this book, social anthropologist Steven Webster provides an ethnohistory of sustainability among the indigenous Andean community of Hatun Q’ero since the 1960s. He first revisits his detailed ecological research among the remote Q’ero i

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The South Central Highlands and the Q’ero Cultural Region: An Ethnic Enclavea dominion; and the position of what I called “accommodated tribal communities” and “ethnic enclaves” in contemporary highland Peruvian society. The ethnic enclave of several Q’ero communities (now called the Q’ero Nation) is situated east of Cuzco high on the eastern-most range of the Central Andes

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Settlement Patterns, camps, and usually vacant ritual center, and then in terms of the series of altitudinal zones through which the several valleys where these settlements are located descend over 3000 meters from the peaks and glaciers above their alpaca pastures, converge at their ritual center, and continue down

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The Structure of the Community Nicheterms of each major altitudinal zone straddled by the community. Chapter . examines these with attention to their techniques of pastoralism in the . pastures and moors, Andean tuber agriculture in the . gullies and lower . embankments, and maize horticulture in the subtropical ., each with their dis

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Subsistence Strategyory strategies, and demographic processes. The Q’eros’ often harried routines are analyzed first as a series of closely timed cycles based on annual climatic and perennial soil changes. These cycles are worked out in a tempo integrating phases in the several production regimes, and the coordination

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Family Organization and the Domestic Groupity in more detail. Although the “verticality” of their ecosystem demands a dispersed and transhumant community, their social system counterbalances this through cohesive domestic groups (Chap. .), marriage alliances between kingroups (Chap. .), and a ranked hierarchy of leadership statuses (Chap. .

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Kinship and Affinityommunity as an integral ecosystem. As with domestic groups, the kinship organization and marriage alliances between kingroups are most clearly seen in festivals and other rituals, specifically the cycle of redistributive feasts held in the ritual center for the entire community, and funeral wakes he

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Social Ranking, Hierarchy, and Leadership [1974]o community as an integral ecosystem. Social rank and the hierarchy of community leadership, although less closely tied to the local ecology, is built directly on the redistribution of relative wealth in festivals and other rituals, and in this way responds to unequal access to the natural resources

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