Notes on an Ontological Device and its Historic Omission between a Naturalists Expedition and the Emergence of Andean Anthropology in Peru
Abstract
I will try here to make some comments on the way in which the boundaries between what is currently perceived as existing and what is left as non-existing have been demarcated in the contemporary Peruvian Andes. Which actors have contributed to the visibility or invisibility of certain Andean indigenous groups? In the specific case of the Cañaris area (in northern Peru), these actors are an Italian scientific explorer and some Cañarense "Indians". Between the end of the 18th and the end of the 19th century (i.e. before the rise of indigenism and the subsequent emergence of anthropology as an academic discipline in Peru), each of them tried to create different entities: a set of natural resources to be managed by science (in the case of Raimondi) and a set of lands to be controlled by a temple (in the case of the Indians).
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