Olivia Harris

Biographic Data

ID144053
NAMEOlivia Harris
GIVEN NAMESOlivia
FAMILY NAMEHarris
SIGNATUREHARRIS O
AFFILIATIONSGoldsmiths University of London
ORCID0000-0001-9951-7023
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS62
TOTAL CITATIONS514
AUTHOR COUNT59
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX10

  • Monumental Times: Pasts, Presents, and Futures in the Prehistoric Construction Projects of Northern Europe and Western Europe

    Olivia Harris, Oliver HarrisARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2025

  • Complementariedad y conflicto. Una visión andina del hombre y la mujer

    Open AccessOlivia HarrisARTICLEAllpanchis2020Cited by: 1

    The analysis of binary conceptual systems includes "man and woman" as paradigms of opposite categories. In many cultures, the use of the categories "woman and man", to facilitate thinking, seems to be part of an ordering system in which women are placed on the less valued and inferred side of the opposition. Thus, some authors have suggested that women are to men, what nature is to culture. Others have drawn attention to the way in which the left…

  • John Victor Murra, 1916- 2006. Antropólogo e historiador de los Andes

    Open AccessOlivia HarrisARTICLEÍconos - Revista de Ciencias…2013

    El antropólogo e historiador John Victor Murra, nacido el 24 de agosto de 1916 y fallecido el 16 de octubre del 2006 a la edad de 90 años, revolucionó el estudio y comprensión de las culturas andinas y en particular de la sociedad y el estado Inca. Mientras los eruditos que le precedieron se habían dejado fascinar por los rasgos únicos y exóticos del Incario (maravillándose por su estado centralizado y por el enorme poder e influencia de un domin…

  • The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology

    Richard Fardon, Olivia Harris et al.BOOKThe Sage Handbook of Social…2012Cited by: 23References: 6

  • Knowing the past: Plural identities and the antinomies of loss in Highland Bolivia

    Olivia HarrisCHAPTERCounterworks2010

  • Trocaban El Trabajo en Fiesta Y Regocijo: Acerca Del Valor Del Trabajo en Los Andes Históricos Y Contemporáneos

    Open AccessOlivia HarrisARTICLEChungara2010References: 8

    Fuentes tempranas del siglo XVI asocian la nocin de trabajo en los Andes con la de regocijo mientras que en su gran mayora tanto los espaoles de la colonia como los antroplogos lo consideran bajo el prisma de la compulsin desvinculndolo de sus aspectos rituales. En general, las teoras del trabajo en Occidente marxista o no ligan el trabajo y la produccion a la enajenacin. La experiencia de trabajo de campo de la autora la lleva a considerar, sin …

  • Murra 1916-2006

    Open AccessOlivia HarrisARTICLEChungara2010

    terrible siglo XX. Cambio su identidad varias veces, como correspondio a su condition de migrante, de refugiado, de extranjero, pero tambien como resul tado de las transformaciones en su postura polftica y en la relation con su familia de origen. Murra nacio Isak Lipschitz en 1916 en la ciudad cosmopolita de Odessa en el momento en que el antiguo regimen zarista cedfa el poder a los revolucionarios sovieticos y el Ejercito Rojo. Su primer recuerd…

  • Alterities: Kinship and Gender

    Olivia HarrisOTHERA Companion to Latin American…2008

    This chapter contains sections titled: Catholic Inclusions and Exclusions “The House” in Mesoamerican and Andean Societies Affinity and Alterity: Amazonia and the Andes Women, Men, and Difference References

  • The Eternal Return of Conversion: Christianity as Contested Domain in Highland Bolivia

    Open AccessOlivia HarrisCHAPTERAnthropology of Christianity2006

  • Qaraqara-Charka: Mallku, Inka y Rey en la provincia de Charcas (siglos XV-XVII). Historia antropológica de una confederación aymara

    Tristan Platt, Thérèse Bouysse-Cassagne et al.BOOKQaraqara-Charka2006Cited by: 51

    Institut francais d'etudes andines - IFEA; Plural editores; University of St. Andrews; University of London; Interamerican Foundation; Fundacion Cultural del Banco Central de Bolivia

  • The Anthropology of Christianity

    Open AccessJ Bialecki, Naomi Haynes et al.BOOKAnthropology of Christianity2006Cited by: 165References: 31

    This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell contends in her powerful introduction, Christianity is the critical "repressed" of anthropology. To a great extent, anthropology first defined itself…

  • Braudel: Historical Time and the Horror of Discontinuity

    Olivia HarrisARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2004Cited by: 10

    In his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France entitled ‘The situation of history in 1950’, which Fernand Braudel delivered just five years after the end of the Second World War and a year after the publication of The Mediterranean in the Age of Philip II, he reflected on the traumatic experi-ences of the previous decades, which had ‘thrown us violently back into our deepest selves, and thence into a consideration of the whole destiny of manki…

  • A public flogging in south-western Iran juridical rule, abolition of legality and local resistence

    Olivia HarrisCHAPTERInside and Outside the Law2003

    One morning in late August 1981, a crowd of several hundred people gathered to watch the public flogging of four Luri men in the centre of the small town of Deh-dasht, a subprovincial capital in the southwestern province of Kuhgiluyeh, Iran.2 The men were guilty of gambling in a private house in the town. They had been discovered playing cards for money by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards (pasdaran), and convicted by the ruler of the Islamic juri…

  • Vigilantism Order and disorder on the frontiers of the state

    Olivia HarrisCHAPTERInside and Outside the Law2003

    This chapter is a preliminary attempt at a general discussion of some of the main characteristics of vigilantism. It follows some of my earlier work on the subject, which was mainly focused upon recent developments in Tanzania where so-called Sungusungu vigilante groups emerged in the early 1980s to combat cattle theft and other criminality, as well as some more locally defined offences such as witchcraft. 1 Like many other Britons of my generati…

  • In praise of bastards the uncertainties of mestizo identity in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Andes

    Olivia HarrisCHAPTERInside and Outside the Law2003

    Illegitimate birth, which we tend to think of as a fairly marginal social phenomenon, has long been so central a fact of life in post-Conquest Latin America that a consideration of it can lead us straight to the uncertain and ill-understood nature of one of the identities it engendered-that of the mestizo. Two sets of circumstances in particular bear directly on the shaping of Latin American mestizaje: the circumstances of its birth, since it qui…

  • The law and the market rhetorics of exclusion and inclusion among London prostitutes

    Olivia HarrisCHAPTERInside and Outside the Law2003

    London prostitutes present themselves as workers and business-women. 1 Indeed, women often suggest that they are in a good position to take advantage of market opportunities. At the same time, they say that their freedom to make money is constrained by the law and, in particular, its enforcement. In the UK, as in many countries, it is legal to be, but not to work as, a prostitute. Accordingly, London prostitutes consider themselves outside the la…

  • Living their lives in courts the counter-hegemonic force of the Tswana kgotla in a colonical context

    Olivia HarrisCHAPTERInside and Outside the Law2003

    Recent studies of the colonial encounter emphasize the penetration of Western law. Among many others, Channock has forcefully argued that ‘[l] aw was the cutting edge of colonialism, an instrument of the power of an alien state and part of the process of coercion’ (Channock 1985:4, cf. Snyder 1981; Roberts and Mann 1991:9ff.). However appropriate this notion is to depict certain important aspects of colonial encounters, it needs to be taken into …

  • Human rights talk and anthropological ambivalence The particular contexts of universal claims

    Olivia HarrisCHAPTERInside and Outside the Law2003

    It is hardly possible today to open a newspaper without coming across a reference to human rights. We hear almost daily about abominable violations of human rights taking place around the world and occasionally of cases being brought before the European Court of Human Rights. Additional references to human rights demonstrate how pregnant this discourse has become. For example, as I was writing this chapter, an article appeared in the Guardian abo…

  • Trading in ambiguity Law, rights and realities in the distribution of land in northern Mozambique

    Olivia HarrisCHAPTERInside and Outside the Law2003

    It was 1989, in the Green Zone, the safe area on the periphery of Mozambique’s capital city Maputo. Inside the three-metre-high gates lay the fertile valley, constantly fed by water in summer and winter, rainy season or dry, water stored by the imposing dam that blocked its free passage. The land was cultivated by Lonhro, and the peasant farmers who had once used it had been pushed outside the high perimeter fence onto marginal and barely usable …

  • Which centre, whose margin? Notes towards an archaeology of US Supreme Court Case 91—948, 1993(Church of the Lukumi vs. City of Hialeah, South Florida)

    Olivia HarrisCHAPTERInside and Outside the Law2003

    On 11 June 1993, the US Supreme Court unanimously overruled a set of ordinances passed some six years earlier by the City of Hialeah, a Cuban-dominated, largely bluecollar incorporated city within the Greater Miami metropolitan area. Though two lower courts had previously upheld these ordinances, the Supreme Court found that they unlawfully suppressed practices protected under the US Constitution’s First Amendment’s guarantee of Freedom of Religi…

  • Inside and Outside the Law

    Olivia HarrisBOOKInside and Outside the Law2003

    Inside and Outside the Law analyses the relationship between the law, the state and its citizens. Drawing on general theories and specific case-studies, it examines the diverse ways in which people in different cultural and historical settings have experienced the ambiguities of law. Its theme develops to engage with current debates concerning the status of rules and codification in social life and to the revival of interest in moralities. With c…

  • Knowing the past

    Olivia HarrisCHAPTERCounterworks2003

    History, it could be argued, is local knowledge par excellence. The 'past' can be an object of knowledge insofar as it is exemplified by particular actions or events that have been played out in localities. The idea that people may have little awareness of their own past in the sense of well-documented narratives has come to be seen as almost scandalous. And given the fundamental place of written documentation to the constitution of knowledge of …

  • Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology

    John Fisher, John T Fisher et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1997

  • Los límites como problema: Mapas etnohistóricos de los Andes bolivianos

    Open AccessOlivia HarrisCHAPTERSaberes y memorias en los Andes1997

    Pour l’enfant amoureux des cartes et des estampes,L’univers est égal a son vaste appétit,Que le monde est grand à la clarté des lampes!Aux yeux du souvenir que le monde est petit!Charles Baudelaire Le Voyage En su reflexión sobre el viajar. Baudelaire contrapone el placer de mirar los mapas e imaginarse los lugares representados, con la desilusión que espera al viajero cuando llega a verlos en carne y hueso. Así puntualiza un aspecto paradógico d…

  • Saberes y memorias en los Andes: In memoriam Thierry Saignes

    Open AccessCristina Bubba, Juan M Chacama R et al.BOOKSaberes y memorias en los Andes1997Cited by: 5

    Os problemas ligados a la construcción de la memoria en los Andes, plantean no sólo el de un mayor ο menor grado de adhesión traditión, sino los de su modo de transmisión. Las sociedades andinas son marcadas por la heterogeneidad, no sólo porque sellan el encuentro de varias culturas complejas, sino porque este encuentro détermina modalidades adaptativas diversas: sincretismos, préstamos asimilados ο no; y es por estos rasgos que las culturas que…