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Earth Beings

Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

Marisol de la Cadena

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Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

Marisol de la Cadena

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Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial connections between them, de la Cadena presents how the Turpos' indigenous ways of knowing and being include and exceed modern and nonmodern practices. Her discussion of indigenous political strategies—a realm that need not abide by binary logics—reconfigures how to think about and question modern politics, while pushing her readers to think beyond "hybridity" and toward translation, communication that accepts incommensurability, and mutual difference as conditions for ethnography to work.

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lation 
and 
my 
practice 
of 
anthropology 
in 
Cuzco, 
and 
that 
of 
Carmona 
and 
Flores 
Ochoa 
in 
the 
same 
region. 
was 
born 
in 
Lima. 
Quechua 
is 
not 
my 
na-
tive 
language, 
and 
my 
proficiency 
is 
weak. 
In 
contrast, 
Carmona 
and 
Flores 
Ochoa 
were 
born 
in 
the 
southern 
Andes 
of 
Peru 
and 
are 
native 
speakers 
of 
both 
Quechua 
and 
Spanish. 
When 
they 
interacted 
with 
Nazario—whether 
as 
anthropologists 
or 
as 
friends—they 
did 
not 
need 
translation. 
However, 
the 
Turpos 
and 
could 
not 
avoid 
it. 
Articulated 
at 
the 
intersection 
of 
dis-
ciplinary 
practice 
and 
regional 
belonging, 
this 
difference—and 
not 
only 
my 
theoretical 
views—made 
translation 
very 
tangible 
feature 
in 
my 
rela-
tionship 
with 
Mariano 
and 
Nazario. 
rough 
our 
conversations 
we 
worked 
together 
to 
understand 
each 
other, 
co-laboring 
through 
linguistic 
and 
con-
ceptual 
hurdles, 
assisted 
by 
many 
intermediaries, 
particularly 
Elizabeth 
Ma-
mani.3 
Our 
joint 
labor 
created 
the 
conversations 
that 
we 
could 
consider 
“the 
original” 
for 
this 
book. 
us 
it 
was 
not 
Nazario’s 
or 
Mariano’s 
cultural 
text 
that 
translated. 
Instead, 
the 
original—which, 
repeat, 
consisted 
of 
our 
con-
Aurelio 
Carmona, 
Nazario 
Turpo, 
and 
Jorge 
Flores 
Ochoa 
at 
the 
inauguration 
of 
the 
National 
Museum 
of 
the 
American 
Indian, 
Washington 
D.C., 
September 
2004.

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