The present article aims to explore the way in which collectivity and authority is perceived and understood in the context of a recently decentralized, neoliberal state. In this sense, the author utilizes the concept of postregulatory government to refer to forms of government, prevalent in Peru and Latin America, in which the enforcement and issuance of regulatory standards and norms is left up to non-state agencies and institutions.By providing examples of real scenarios of decision-making at the local and regional government levels in the Peruvian Andes. The author aims to show how three components: collectivity, politics, and law, have reconfigured themselves as elements characteristic of the new decentralized, Peruvian state.

The present article aims to explore the way in which collectivity and authority is perceived and understood in the context of a recently decentralized, neoliberal state. In this sense, the author utilizes the concept of postregulatory government to refer to forms of government, prevalent in Peru and Latin America, in which the enforcement and issuance of regulatory standards and norms is left up to non-state agencies and institutions.By providing examples of real scenarios of decision-making at the local and regional government levels in the Peruvian Andes. The author aims to show how three components: collectivity, politics, and law, have reconfigured themselves as elements characteristic of the new decentralized, Peruvian state.

Taking risks: Norm, law and participation in the neoliberal state This paper explores the shifting forms of authority and force assigned to law in neoliberalism, and its consequences for what «counts» as political life. I look first at how law is invoked historically in a recounting of two moments in the history of an important agrarian cooperative in Cusco; and then in more detail at the flexible and contested understandings of norm and risk that circulate in a district level participatory budgeting process. In these two examples—taken from periods bridging two distinct moments in the articulation of political life and state form in Peru—law emerges not as a transcendent force or expression of the State’s will, but rather as a space in which local actors experiment with diverse understandings of development and the common good. In this sense, then, I argue that «law» shapes lo...

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Taking risks: Norm, law and participation in the neoliberal state This paper explores the shifting forms of authority and force assigned to law in neoliberalism, and its consequences for what «counts» as political life. I look first at how law is invoked historically in a recounting of two moments in the history of an important agrarian cooperative in Cusco; and then in more detail at the flexible and contested understandings of norm and risk that circulate in a district level participatory budgeting process. In these two examples—taken from periods bridging two distinct moments in the articulation of political life and state form in Peru—law emerges not as a transcendent force or expression of the State’s will, but rather as a space in which local actors experiment with diverse understandings of development and the common good. In this sense, then, I argue that «law» shapes lo...

During the 1980s American anthropology underwent two major transformations. The first involved a turn into history. The second, a turn towards texts. While the first of these led scholars a long way towards understanding the specificity, functioning and concrete reality of the economic, political, discursive and social processes studied by anthropology; the second traveled an exquisite path of self-reflection and disciplinary criticism. When the two paths crossed they produced a salutary historical re-examination of the discursive and institutional origins of anthropology in nineteenth-century colonial and evolutionary thought.

The religious sanctuary is a ritual center attended by different social groups in an act of veneration for a religious image. These pilgrimages delimit a certain sacred space demarcated by the devotion and movements of pilgrims to a ritual center. In the Peruvian Andes these sanctuaries, their festivals and religious calendars also form an integral part of the geography of production and traditional exchange of the peasantry. In this article we will call this integration and articulation of the sanctuaries and festivals to the territories and economic processes as "the regional economic-religious complex". We consider that these complexes constitute a historical form due to both economic and religious factors, and whose geographical perimeters and religious centers date back to the ancient ethnic-regional organization of pre-Hispanic and colonial society.

Taking risks: Norm, law and participation in the neoliberal state This paper explores the shifting forms of authority and force assigned to law in neoliberalism, and its consequences for what «counts» as political life. I look first at how law is invoked historically in a recounting of two moments in the history of an important agrarian cooperative in Cusco; and then in more detail at the flexible and contested understandings of norm and risk that circulate in a district level participatory budgeting process. In these two examples—taken from periods bridging two distinct moments in the articulation of political life and state form in Peru—law emerges not as a transcendent force or expression of the State’s will, but rather as a space in which local actors experiment with diverse understandings of development and the common good. In this sense, then, I argue that «law» shapes lo...

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