Returning to Q'ero: Sustaining Indigeneity in an Andean Ecosystem 1969-2020
Steven Webster, "Returning to Q'ero: Sustaining Indigeneity in an Andean Ecosystem 1969-2020 "
English | ISBN: 3031049713 | 2023 | 417 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 3031049713 | 2023 | 417 pages | PDF | 4 MB
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 in the high Andes of Southern Peru in 1969–1970 and 1977. At that time, Q'ero was a community comprised of several hamlets in converging valleys based primarily on alpaca herding at about 4,300 meters, and composed of about 400 persons in about 80 families. He then relies on the few ethnographies by other anthropologists to document changes in Hatun Q'ero by 2020 , spanning 1980-90s when the nation was immersed in agrarian reform followed by virtual civil war between Maoist guerrillas, the government, and the highland peasantry. Through all of these ideological and political-economic developments the sustainability of Q'ero as an integral ecological and social community as well as a famously Incaic cultural tradition becomes a global as well as national issue.
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