Linda J Seligmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 76947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda J Seligmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda J |
| FAMILY NAME | Seligmann |
| SIGNATURE | SELIGMANN L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 214 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Unraveling Time
Broken Links, Enduring Ties
Innovations in Ethnographic Methods
This article reviews innovations in ethnographic methods that have developed over the past 25 years, specifically the emergence of multisited and short-term fieldwork, digital ethnography, various kinds of participatory and collaborative ethnography, and the use of interviews. Ethnographic methods, once primarily employed by anthropologists, have now been embraced by many other social science practitioners. The article discusses the strengths and…
Informal Sector
This entry examines the origins of the concept of the informal sector and reviews how it has been defined, the methodologies proposed to investigate its operations, and the relationship between formal and informal sector activities. It discusses tensions among anthropologists, policy makers, and economists with respect to the appropriate unit of analysis of informal‐sector employment and workers and their contributions to national economies. It a…
The Andean World
This comprehensive reference offers an authoritative overview of Andean lifeways. It provides valuable historical context, and demonstrates the relevance of learning about the Andes in light of contemporary events and debates. The volume covers the ecology and pre-Columbian history of the region, and addresses key themes such as cosmology, aesthetics, gender and household relations, modes of economic production, exchange, and consumption, postcol…
How Chinese Are You? Adopted Chinese Youth and Their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture by Andrea Louie. New York
Conclusion
Between Story Telling and Critical Analysis
Race and Power in the Shadows of Family Making
2013). Race and Power in the Shadows of Family Making. Anthropology Now: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 118-121
Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes by Olga M. González
A Revolution for Our Rights
Adoptive Families in a Diverse Society
The Cultural and Political Economies of Adoption Practices in Andean Peru and the United States
El artículo examina desde una perspectiva comparativa las prácticas de adopción transnacionales y transraciales en la sierra sur andina del Perú y los EE.UU. De esta forma, se analizan las diversas actividades y estrategias que los padres adoptivos desarrollan para construir un sentido compartido de lo local y lograr cruzar fronteras culturales, las que tienen un gran impacto en la formación de la identidad de sus hijos. En los casos de adopcione…
Introduction
Maternal Politics and Religious Fervor
The life story of one Peruvian market woman, Felicitas Lucrecia Mamani de Cardona Ríos, offers a window into the social context and cultural values that have an impact on her individual struggles. At the same time, less explicit exchange dynamics akin to transference and countertransference between Lucre and the ethnographer dynamically structure the interview process. The ethnographer desired and sought to emulate some of Lucre's qualities-her p…
Agrarian Reform and Peasant Studies
This chapter contains sections titled: Indigenismo Cultural Ecology, Community Studies, and Modernization The Emergence of Peasant Studies Agrarian Reform The Anthropology of Peasants and Class Struggle The Demise of Reform Why Have Peasant Studies Vanished? Processes of Globalization: Neoliberalism, Structural Readjustment, and Nongovernmental Organizations Conclusion References
Transnational Adoption
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption; Cultures of Transnational Adoption
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption. Fiona Bowie, ed. New York: Routledge, 2005. 279 pp.Cultures of Transnational Adoption. Toby Alice Volkman, ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 232 pp
Legitimacy, Honor, and Sexuality in Colonial South America
Burns, Kathryn. Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. xi + 307 pp. including chapter references and index. $49.95 cloth, $17.9
Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective
This innovative volume studies women as economic, political, and cultural mediators of space, gender, value, and language in informal markets. Drawing on diverse methodologies—multisited fieldwork, linguistic analysis, and archival research—the contributors demonstrate how women move between and knit together household and marketplace activities. This knitting together pivots on how household practices and economies are translated and transferred…
Introduction
Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Peasants on Plantations
Book Review| April 01 2001 Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru By Vincent C. Peloso. (Durham, : Duke University Press, 1999. xxi + 251 pp., preface, introduction, maps, glossary, bibliography, index.$49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.) Linda J. Seligmann Linda J. Seligmann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 373–375. https://doi.org/10.1215/00…
Society for Latin American Anthropology
Society for Latin American Anthropology
Between Worlds of Exchange
The street worries the rich, its disorder and daily uncertainty represent a constant threat. ... One has to ... disperse the populace, control these immoderate gestures of a violence that is only the mirror image of their own daily life ... yet to prevent a crowd from forming is not sufficient. ... One has to go further: make hygienic, cleanse [and] enlighten these obscure masses. ... There follows a determined volition to construct a productive …
To Be In Between
When I did my first field research in Peru in 1974, I was struck by the forceful, energetic, and at times bawdy market women known ascholas. They stood out because they appeared fearless, astute, different, and unpredictable. I could ot find a counterpart among Peruvian males. The cholas feigned neither humility toward rich white foreigners nor unbridled admiration for their ways. They inhabited a world distinct from that of either the Quechua pe…
Transnational Adoption
Introduction
Adoptive Families in a Diverse Society
Innovations in Ethnographic Methods
This article reviews innovations in ethnographic methods that have developed over the past 25 years, specifically the emergence of multisited and short-term fieldwork, digital ethnography, various kinds of participatory and collaborative ethnography, and the use of interviews. Ethnographic methods, once primarily employed by anthropologists, have now been embraced by many other social science practitioners. The article discusses the strengths and…
Creating Context in Andean Cultures
Creating Context in Andean Cultures. ROSALEEN HOWARD-MALVERDE, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997; 253 pp. The writers of this volume strive to show and textualizing practices are active agents in the shaping of experience and . . . the creation of context (p. 7). In the spirit of a more dialogical approach to understanding cultural expressions, include a range of cultural activities and artifacts. Howard-Malverde emphasizes that the cen…
Covering Ground
Covering Ground: Communal Water Management and the State in the Peruvian Highlands. David W. Guillet. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1992. 250 pp. $39.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–472–09474–2
The Burden of Visions Amidst Reform
Passage of the 1969 Agrarian Reform Law in Peru became a critical moment in which various sectors of Andean society invoked distinct principles and deployed particular strategies in order to defend their rights to land and their visions of just labor relations and legitimate political authority. The principles they invoked and the strategies they used were careful responses to the new face and character of the state, the legal content of the refo…
The Cultural and Political Economies of Adoption Practices in Andean Peru and the United States
El artículo examina desde una perspectiva comparativa las prácticas de adopción transnacionales y transraciales en la sierra sur andina del Perú y los EE.UU. De esta forma, se analizan las diversas actividades y estrategias que los padres adoptivos desarrollan para construir un sentido compartido de lo local y lograr cruzar fronteras culturales, las que tienen un gran impacto en la formación de la identidad de sus hijos. En los casos de adopcione…
The Chicken in Andean History and Myth
The Quechua concept wallpa refers to the chicken, to the experience of the Spanish Conquest, and to prehispanic notions of power and authority. Ethnohistorical, lexical, and ethnographic evidence is used to decipher the puzzle of how a word for a European import can symbolize precolonial structures and concepts. This evidence indicates that concepts are juxtaposed in a process that transforms particular historical events into markers punctuating …
Maternal Politics and Religious Fervor
The life story of one Peruvian market woman, Felicitas Lucrecia Mamani de Cardona Ríos, offers a window into the social context and cultural values that have an impact on her individual struggles. At the same time, less explicit exchange dynamics akin to transference and countertransference between Lucre and the ethnographer dynamically structure the interview process. The ethnographer desired and sought to emulate some of Lucre's qualities-her p…
The Andean World
This comprehensive reference offers an authoritative overview of Andean lifeways. It provides valuable historical context, and demonstrates the relevance of learning about the Andes in light of contemporary events and debates. The volume covers the ecology and pre-Columbian history of the region, and addresses key themes such as cosmology, aesthetics, gender and household relations, modes of economic production, exchange, and consumption, postcol…
Between Story Telling and Critical Analysis
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption; Cultures of Transnational Adoption
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption. Fiona Bowie, ed. New York: Routledge, 2005. 279 pp.Cultures of Transnational Adoption. Toby Alice Volkman, ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 232 pp
Conclusion
A Revolution for Our Rights
Es mas fácil destruir que crear
En su artículo "Perdiendo la Revolución: Los Antropólogos y la Guerra en el Perú", Orin Starn nos presenta una explicación extrañamente distorsionada del porqué tanto antropólogos que habían trabajado en las regiones alto andinas del Perú durante las décadas del sesenta y el setenta no pudieron presagiar la venida de un conflicto violento, en la forma del Partido Comunista Peruano-Sendero Luminoso, y el apoyo que éste recibiría en el campo
The Origins and Development of the Andean State
The Origins and Development of the Andean State. Johnathan Haas eds., Sheila Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski (eds.). New Directions In Archaeology. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1987. 200 pp., graphs, maps, sketches, Index. $42.50 (cloth). ISBN 0‐521‐33102‐1
Organización social y visión ecológica de un sistema de riego andino
Conzedera que en un pueblo tienen sacado unas asecyas de los rríos o posos, de las lagunas o de estanques. En tiempo antiguo lo sacaron con tanto tavajo que ci avía de pagar y gastar se gastaría dies o doze mil pesos o veynte mil pesos. Que antes que fuese Ynga, como avía tanta suma de yndios y no tenía más que un rrey y señor, lo abrieron y lo sacaron las asecyas y todas las sementeras, andenes que ellos les llama para, chacra, larca. Y lo sacar…
The Chicken in Andean History and Myth
The Quechua concept wallpa refers to the chicken, to the experience of the Spanish Conquest, and to prehispanic notions of power and authority. Ethnohistorical, lexical, and ethnographic evidence is used to decipher the puzzle of how a word for a European import can symbolize precolonial structures and concepts. This evidence indicates that concepts are juxtaposed in a process that transforms particular historical events into markers punctuating …
Irrigation in the Bajio Region of Colonial Mexico
Irrigation in the Bajío Region of Colonial Mexico by Michael E. Murphy
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 679 past who, without benefit of higher mathematics or computers or stress tests, nevertheless managed to solve some extraordinarily dif ficult problems, like how to erect a building of stone with largely glass walls, how to transfer the thrust of arches to buttresses, how to raise the huge blocks to construct the great pyramids. The book is to be recommended to all those wishing to grasp something of the swee…
The Origins and Development of the Andean State
The Origins and Development of the Andean State. Johnathan Haas eds., Sheila Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski (eds.). New Directions In Archaeology. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1987. 200 pp., graphs, maps, sketches, Index. $42.50 (cloth). ISBN 0‐521‐33102‐1
The Origins and Development of the Andean State
Politics and Parentela in Paraiba
To Be In Between
When I did my first field research in Peru in 1974, I was struck by the forceful, energetic, and at times bawdy market women known ascholas. They stood out because they appeared fearless, astute, different, and unpredictable. I could ot find a counterpart among Peruvian males. The cholas feigned neither humility toward rich white foreigners nor unbridled admiration for their ways. They inhabited a world distinct from that of either the Quechua pe…
Food, Conquest, and Colonization in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America
Livelihood and Resistance
Between Field and Cooking Pot
Es mas fácil destruir que crear
En su artículo "Perdiendo la Revolución: Los Antropólogos y la Guerra en el Perú", Orin Starn nos presenta una explicación extrañamente distorsionada del porqué tanto antropólogos que habían trabajado en las regiones alto andinas del Perú durante las décadas del sesenta y el setenta no pudieron presagiar la venida de un conflicto violento, en la forma del Partido Comunista Peruano-Sendero Luminoso, y el apoyo que éste recibiría en el campo
Transatlantic Encounters
Transatlantic Encounters
Transatlantic Encounters: Europeans and Andeans in the Sixteenth Century. Kenneth J. Andrien and Rolena Adorno. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. viii + 295. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 0–520–07228–6
Manufacturing against the Odds
Manufacturing against the Odds: Small‐Scale Producers in an Andean City. HANS C. BUECHLER and JUDITH‐MARIA BUECHLER. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992. 311 pp. $46.50 (paper). ISBN 0–8133–8448–6
Covering Ground
Covering Ground
Covering Ground: Communal Water Management and the State in the Peruvian Highlands. David W. Guillet. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1992. 250 pp. $39.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–472–09474–2
Manufacturing against the Odds
Between Worlds of Exchange
The street worries the rich, its disorder and daily uncertainty represent a constant threat. ... One has to ... disperse the populace, control these immoderate gestures of a violence that is only the mirror image of their own daily life ... yet to prevent a crowd from forming is not sufficient. ... One has to go further: make hygienic, cleanse [and] enlighten these obscure masses. ... There follows a determined volition to construct a productive …
The Burden of Visions Amidst Reform
Passage of the 1969 Agrarian Reform Law in Peru became a critical moment in which various sectors of Andean society invoked distinct principles and deployed particular strategies in order to defend their rights to land and their visions of just labor relations and legitimate political authority. The principles they invoked and the strategies they used were careful responses to the new face and character of the state, the legal content of the refo…
Entre previsiones y posibilidades
Con motivo de los veinticinco años de Allpanchis ofrecemos a nuestros lectores las opiniones de un amplio grupo de especialistas en desarrollo rural, investigadores del mundo andino y agentes pastorales en torno al tema de esta edición especial de aniversario: el futuro de los Andes y de la sierra sur del Perú
Confronting Historical Paradigms
The Logic of the Latifundio
Autonomy and Power
Andean Logic and Andean Identity
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