Ward Stavig
Biographic Data
| ID | 684985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ward Stavig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ward |
| FAMILY NAME | Stavig |
| SIGNATURE | STAVIG W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
La batalla por Puno
The distance between coastal Peru and the highlands is much greater than even the difficult terrain and physical distance would suggest. The peoples, cultures, economies, and even the histories of these articulated, but distinct, regions has created a chasm of such immense proportions that even with goodwill and the desire to understand one another, it would still be difficult to span. To this point in Peruvian history, these optimal conditions h…
Latin American Globalization in Historical Perspective
This article places the current era of globalization in its larger historical perspective by looking at present trends through the lens of the first wave of globalization in the 16th and 17th centuries and the second wave that extended from the middle of the 19th century through the First World War or even until the crisis of modern capitalism known as the great depression. It draws special attention to issues of forced and free labor, forced and…
We Alone Will Rule
In October 2003, the sociopolitical landscape of Bolivia was severely shaken. Poor people, primarily of Aymara ancestry, descended from the adobe-lined streets of the indigenous barrios in El Alto to besiege the old city center and the Plaza of San Francisco. In this way, they sought to redress age-old grievances and assert their voices in the midst of yet another crisis. Over the last couple of decades, Andeanists have directed much of their att…
Indian Society in the Valley of Lima, Peru, 1532-1824
Several years ago, during an Easter celebration in Cuzco, I witnessed members of one cofradía tossing fruit to the gathered crowd of worshipers and onlookers as they left the church with their “Virgin.” I asked one of the locals who these people (mainly of mestizo and indigenous background, if appearances can be trusted) were. He replied that they were fruit retailers from the local market who had formed a cofradía to provide themselves with a mu…
From Moon Goddesses to Virgins
For anyone who has studied an indigenous language, From Moon Goddesses to Virgins deserves a great deal of respect. Using Mayan-language documents primarily from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Sigal explores the issue of sexual desire, seeing in this theme not only personal and religious relations but also “sexualized debates about political, social, cultural, and economic issues” (p. xiv). Sigal uses, but does not necessarily support,…
From Subjects to Citizens
From Subjects to Citizens
The World of Tupac Amaru
Continuing the Bleeding of These Pueblos Will Shortly Make Them Cadavers
The exploitation of Andean villagers under the forced labor regime for the mines of Potosi is almost as infamous as the silver they extracted from the cerro rico is famous. Established by Viceroy Toledo in the 1570s, the mita , as the system of forced labor was known, remained in place until the smoke and shot of Latin American independence struggles were in the air. For over two centuries, Spain forced thousands upon thousands of naturales (a co…
Ambiguous Visions
The defense of community lands against European encroachment was one of the hallmarks of indigenous resistance to colonial domination. Communal lands were vital to indigenous peoples’ social and biological reproduction, and little, if anything, was more important to them. In fact, land was an important part of the equation that defined them as distinct peoples; it was a source of their ethnic identity. They knew their lands and the signs of chang…
Andean Journeys
America and the people truly without history
Lives of the Bigamists: Marriage, Family, and Community in Colonial Mexico. By RICHARD BOYER. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. Pp. x, 341. Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500–1700. By SUSAN KELLOG. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. Pp. xxxiii, 285. To the Royal Crown Restored: The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1692–94. Edited by JOHN KESSEL, RICK HENDRICKSA and MEREDITH DODGE. Albuquerque: …
Living in Offense of Our Lord
B Y 1759, Dofia Maria Hincho and her husband, Don Mariano Puma, had been married about 40 years. More fortunate in a material sense than many others in their community, this indigenous couple owned land-a small haciendaand animals. Perhaps this derived from Don Mariano's heritage as a noble Inca and the son of a cacique. Dofia Maria and Don Mariano, however, had no children. Thus, when Don Mariano was in his 74th year, the couple, being Christian…
The Past Weighs on the Minds of the Living
For several decades, much of the best work on rural society in Latin America was written by historians peering over the shoulders of hacendados, colonial officials, and merchants, endeavoring to make sense out of their worlds. These historians often brought to their work sophisticated analytical tools and ideas that were mainly materialist and political in nature but cultural as well, and they continue to write complex and intriguing history. In …
Ethnic Conflict, Moral Economy, and Population in Rural Cuzco on the Eve of the Thupa Amaro II Rebellion
IN recent years there has been renewed scholarly interest as to the causes and significance of the Thupa Amaro ' rebellion that exploded on the colonial landscape of rural Cuzco in 1780 and quickly spread through much of the southern Andes. This interest was spurred by the Peruvian military government's use of Thupa Amaro as a symbol of its commitment to social change after it took power in 1968 and by the flurry of publications and events surrou…
Ambiguous Visions
The defense of community lands against European encroachment was one of the hallmarks of indigenous resistance to colonial domination. Communal lands were vital to indigenous peoples’ social and biological reproduction, and little, if anything, was more important to them. In fact, land was an important part of the equation that defined them as distinct peoples; it was a source of their ethnic identity. They knew their lands and the signs of chang…
Living in Offense of Our Lord
B Y 1759, Dofia Maria Hincho and her husband, Don Mariano Puma, had been married about 40 years. More fortunate in a material sense than many others in their community, this indigenous couple owned land-a small haciendaand animals. Perhaps this derived from Don Mariano's heritage as a noble Inca and the son of a cacique. Dofia Maria and Don Mariano, however, had no children. Thus, when Don Mariano was in his 74th year, the couple, being Christian…
Ethnic Conflict, Moral Economy, and Population in Rural Cuzco on the Eve of the Thupa Amaro II Rebellion
IN recent years there has been renewed scholarly interest as to the causes and significance of the Thupa Amaro ' rebellion that exploded on the colonial landscape of rural Cuzco in 1780 and quickly spread through much of the southern Andes. This interest was spurred by the Peruvian military government's use of Thupa Amaro as a symbol of its commitment to social change after it took power in 1968 and by the flurry of publications and events surrou…
Continuing the Bleeding of These Pueblos Will Shortly Make Them Cadavers
The exploitation of Andean villagers under the forced labor regime for the mines of Potosi is almost as infamous as the silver they extracted from the cerro rico is famous. Established by Viceroy Toledo in the 1570s, the mita , as the system of forced labor was known, remained in place until the smoke and shot of Latin American independence struggles were in the air. For over two centuries, Spain forced thousands upon thousands of naturales (a co…
From Moon Goddesses to Virgins
For anyone who has studied an indigenous language, From Moon Goddesses to Virgins deserves a great deal of respect. Using Mayan-language documents primarily from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Sigal explores the issue of sexual desire, seeing in this theme not only personal and religious relations but also “sexualized debates about political, social, cultural, and economic issues” (p. xiv). Sigal uses, but does not necessarily support,…
Latin American Globalization in Historical Perspective
This article places the current era of globalization in its larger historical perspective by looking at present trends through the lens of the first wave of globalization in the 16th and 17th centuries and the second wave that extended from the middle of the 19th century through the First World War or even until the crisis of modern capitalism known as the great depression. It draws special attention to issues of forced and free labor, forced and…
The Past Weighs on the Minds of the Living
For several decades, much of the best work on rural society in Latin America was written by historians peering over the shoulders of hacendados, colonial officials, and merchants, endeavoring to make sense out of their worlds. These historians often brought to their work sophisticated analytical tools and ideas that were mainly materialist and political in nature but cultural as well, and they continue to write complex and intriguing history. In …
Ethnic Conflict, Moral Economy, and Population in Rural Cuzco on the Eve of the Thupa Amaro II Rebellion
IN recent years there has been renewed scholarly interest as to the causes and significance of the Thupa Amaro ' rebellion that exploded on the colonial landscape of rural Cuzco in 1780 and quickly spread through much of the southern Andes. This interest was spurred by the Peruvian military government's use of Thupa Amaro as a symbol of its commitment to social change after it took power in 1968 and by the flurry of publications and events surrou…
The Past Weighs on the Minds of the Living
For several decades, much of the best work on rural society in Latin America was written by historians peering over the shoulders of hacendados, colonial officials, and merchants, endeavoring to make sense out of their worlds. These historians often brought to their work sophisticated analytical tools and ideas that were mainly materialist and political in nature but cultural as well, and they continue to write complex and intriguing history. In …
Living in Offense of Our Lord
B Y 1759, Dofia Maria Hincho and her husband, Don Mariano Puma, had been married about 40 years. More fortunate in a material sense than many others in their community, this indigenous couple owned land-a small haciendaand animals. Perhaps this derived from Don Mariano's heritage as a noble Inca and the son of a cacique. Dofia Maria and Don Mariano, however, had no children. Thus, when Don Mariano was in his 74th year, the couple, being Christian…
America and the people truly without history
Lives of the Bigamists: Marriage, Family, and Community in Colonial Mexico. By RICHARD BOYER. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. Pp. x, 341. Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500–1700. By SUSAN KELLOG. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. Pp. xxxiii, 285. To the Royal Crown Restored: The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1692–94. Edited by JOHN KESSEL, RICK HENDRICKSA and MEREDITH DODGE. Albuquerque: …
Andean Journeys
The World of Tupac Amaru
Continuing the Bleeding of These Pueblos Will Shortly Make Them Cadavers
The exploitation of Andean villagers under the forced labor regime for the mines of Potosi is almost as infamous as the silver they extracted from the cerro rico is famous. Established by Viceroy Toledo in the 1570s, the mita , as the system of forced labor was known, remained in place until the smoke and shot of Latin American independence struggles were in the air. For over two centuries, Spain forced thousands upon thousands of naturales (a co…
Ambiguous Visions
The defense of community lands against European encroachment was one of the hallmarks of indigenous resistance to colonial domination. Communal lands were vital to indigenous peoples’ social and biological reproduction, and little, if anything, was more important to them. In fact, land was an important part of the equation that defined them as distinct peoples; it was a source of their ethnic identity. They knew their lands and the signs of chang…
From Subjects to Citizens
From Subjects to Citizens
From Moon Goddesses to Virgins
For anyone who has studied an indigenous language, From Moon Goddesses to Virgins deserves a great deal of respect. Using Mayan-language documents primarily from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Sigal explores the issue of sexual desire, seeing in this theme not only personal and religious relations but also “sexualized debates about political, social, cultural, and economic issues” (p. xiv). Sigal uses, but does not necessarily support,…
We Alone Will Rule
In October 2003, the sociopolitical landscape of Bolivia was severely shaken. Poor people, primarily of Aymara ancestry, descended from the adobe-lined streets of the indigenous barrios in El Alto to besiege the old city center and the Plaza of San Francisco. In this way, they sought to redress age-old grievances and assert their voices in the midst of yet another crisis. Over the last couple of decades, Andeanists have directed much of their att…
Indian Society in the Valley of Lima, Peru, 1532-1824
Several years ago, during an Easter celebration in Cuzco, I witnessed members of one cofradía tossing fruit to the gathered crowd of worshipers and onlookers as they left the church with their “Virgin.” I asked one of the locals who these people (mainly of mestizo and indigenous background, if appearances can be trusted) were. He replied that they were fruit retailers from the local market who had formed a cofradía to provide themselves with a mu…
Latin American Globalization in Historical Perspective
This article places the current era of globalization in its larger historical perspective by looking at present trends through the lens of the first wave of globalization in the 16th and 17th centuries and the second wave that extended from the middle of the 19th century through the First World War or even until the crisis of modern capitalism known as the great depression. It draws special attention to issues of forced and free labor, forced and…
La batalla por Puno
The distance between coastal Peru and the highlands is much greater than even the difficult terrain and physical distance would suggest. The peoples, cultures, economies, and even the histories of these articulated, but distinct, regions has created a chasm of such immense proportions that even with goodwill and the desire to understand one another, it would still be difficult to span. To this point in Peruvian history, these optimal conditions h…
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