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This article and the previous «Convergence and divergence between the local and regional state around solid waste management. An unresolved problem in the Sacred Valley» from Teresa Tupayachi are published as complementary accounts on the management of solid waste in the Vilcanota Valley in Cusco. Penelope Harvey and Teresa Tupayachi worked together on this theme. The present article explores how discontinuities across diverse instances of the state are experienced and understood. Drawing from an ethnographic study of the Vilcanota Valley in Cusco, the article looks at the material politics of waste disposal in neoliberal times. Faced with the problem of how to dispose of solid waste, people from Cusco experience a lack of institutional responsibility and call for a stronger state presence. The article describes the efforts by technical experts to design integrated waste management sys...

"El problema tiene particular relevancia para la antropología andina e incluso latinoamericana, en la medida que muchos investigadores han adelantado la idea de la coexistencia de dos formas de práctica social: una derivada de la organización social indígena; la otra, de la presencia de los españoles y el subsecuente efecto ubicuo de la cultura occidental. El argumento general es que factores externos han introducido asimetría y dominio masculino en relaciones entre hombres y mujeres que de otra forma serían complementarias e igualitarias. Incluso allí donde puede verse que los hombres usan estos factores externos para su beneficio, la dominación masculina sobre las mujeres es presentada como esencialmente extraña a las posibilidades inherentes a la organización social indígena".―

This article and the previous «Convergence and divergence between the local and regional state around solid waste management. An unresolved problem in the Sacred Valley» from Teresa Tupayachi are published as complementary accounts on the management of solid waste in the Vilcanota Valley in Cusco. Penelope Harvey and Teresa Tupayachi worked together on this theme. The present article explores how discontinuities across diverse instances of the state are experienced and understood. Drawing from an ethnographic study of the Vilcanota Valley in Cusco, the article looks at the material politics of waste disposal in neoliberal times. Faced with the problem of how to dispose of solid waste, people from Cusco experience a lack of institutional responsibility and call for a stronger state presence. The article describes the efforts by technical experts to design integrated waste management sys...

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The events and practices described in this document took place in Ocongate, a small Andean town in southern Peru. It is a place of great activity, located on the edge of an important road, although not paved, that connects the mountains of southern Peru with the tropical lands of the Amazon. Migrant workers, provisions and raw materials pass daily in the trucks that make the route from Puerto Maldonado to the cities of southern Peru: Cusco, Puno and Arequipa.

Mannheim observed the following regarding the "Andean linguistics debate": "On the one hand, 'dualistic' models of society assume that language policy involves intervention in what would otherwise be a sui-genus exchange of allegiances by individuals of one cultural group to another, and that the mere existence of a large and geographically concentrated population of indigenous-speaking people indicates superficial and recent contact between the groups; on the other hand, models of internal colonization assume that the maintenance of the indigenous language for a long time indicates that it is a convenience that provides the opportunity for economic exploitation and political control...

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This article and the previous «Convergence and divergence between the local and regional state around solid waste management. An unresolved problem in the Sacred Valley» from Teresa Tupayachi are published as complementary accounts on the management of solid waste in the Vilcanota Valley in Cusco. Penelope Harvey and Teresa Tupayachi worked together on this theme. The present article explores how discontinuities across diverse instances of the state are experienced and understood. Drawing from an ethnographic study of the Vilcanota Valley in Cusco, the article looks at the material politics of waste disposal in neoliberal times. Faced with the problem of how to dispose of solid waste, people from Cusco experience a lack of institutional responsibility and call for a stronger state presence. The article describes the efforts by technical experts to design integrated waste management sys...