Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds (The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures Book 2011)

__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. CONTENTS 9 FOREWORD 11 PREFACE ENDING THIS BOOK WITHOUT NAZARIO TURPO 15 STORY 1 AGREEING TO REMEMBER, TRANSLATING, AND CAREFULLY CO- LABORING 29 INTERLUDE ONE MARIANO TURPO A LEADER I N - AYLLU 63 STORY 2 MARIANO ENGAGES “THE LAND STRUGGLE” AN UNTHINKABLE INDIAN LEADER 87 STORY 3 MARIANO’S COSMOPOLITICS BETWEEN LAWYERS AND AUSANGATE 119 STORY 4 MARIANO’S ARCHIVE THE EVENTFULNESS OF THE AHISTORICAL 145 INTERLUDE TWO NAZARIO TURPO “THE ALTOMISAYOQ WHO TOUCHED HEAVEN” 181 STORY 5 CHAMANISMO ANDINO IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM MULTICULTURALISM MEETS EARTH- BEINGS 207 STORY 6 A COMEDY OF EQUIVOCATIONS NAZARIO TURPO’S COLLABORATION WITH THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 237 STORY 7 MUNAYNIYUQ THE OWNER OF THE WILL (AND HOW TO CONTROL THAT WILL) 271 EPILOGUE ETHNOGRAPHIC COSMOPOLITICS 301 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 315 NOTES 319 REFERENCES 331 INDEX 345 Story 1. Agreeing To Remember, Translating, And Carefully Co-laboring -- Interlude 1. Mariano Turpo : In-ayllu Leader -- Story 2. Mariano Engages The Land Struggle : An Unthinkable Indian Leader -- Story 3. Mariano's Cosmopolitics : Between Lawyers And Ausangate -- Story 4. Mariano's Archive : The Eventfulness Of The Ahistorical -- Interlude 2. Nazario Turpo: The Altomisayuq Who Went To Heaven -- Story 5. Chamanismo Andino In The Third Millennium : Multiculturalism Meets Earth-beings -- Story 6. A Comedy Of Equivocations : Nazario Turpo's Collaboration With The National Museum Of The American Indian -- Story 7. Munayniyuq : The Owner Of The Will (and How To Control It). Marisol De La Cadena ; Foreword By Robert J. Foster And Daniel R. Reichman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "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."--Back cover "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"-- Back cover Conversing with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, Marisol de la Cadena explores the entanglements and partial connections between indigenous and non-indigenous worlds, and the ways in which indigenous knowing both include and exceed modern and non-modern practices.