Benjamin S Orlove
Biographic Data
| ID | 75439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin S Orlove |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin S |
| FAMILY NAME | Orlove |
| SIGNATURE | ORLOVE B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Division of Environmental Studies, University of California, Davis, California 95616 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 700 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Weather, Climate, Culture
Relaciones de producción y conflicto de clases en una mina del sur del Perú
Many people who have written about mines, be they journalists, political analysts or social scientists, have highlighted the high level of class conflict within them (Godoy 1985). Those who have entered a mine have come away with vivid visual images that make this description more relevant. This article examines a particular mine, Atalaya, located in the province of Espinar, department of Curso (Peru), at a specific time: November 1972. The mine …
Identifying linkages between urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services using an expert opinion methodology
State, Capital, and Rural Society: Anthropological Perspectives on Political Economy in Mexico and the Andes
Cultural styles of participation in farmers’ discussions of seasonal climate forecasts in Uganda
Communication and mental processes: Experiential and analytic processing of uncertain climate information
Down to Earth: Race and Substance in the Andes
The racial identities of Indians and mestizos in a highland Peruvian region are closely associated with their relative positions to the earth. The agricultural Indians are closer to the earth and the town‐dwelling mestizos are further from it. This distinction is maintained and reinforced through the use of material objects in everyday life, especially earthen objects (adobe bricks, clay pots, dirt roads) and to earth‐touching objects (shoes, flo…
The Allure of the Foreign: Imported Goods in Postcolonial Latin America
A craze for foreign goods struck Latin Americans in the decades after independence that has continued to the present. People of all classes and backgrounds abandoned traditional, locally made goods that had satisfied needs and wishes for centuries: merchants in Costa Rica replaced wooden benches with sofas; Indians in the remote interior of Bolivia used imported British cottons instead of homemade cloth; wealthy and poor alike in Chile began to d…
Meat and Strength: The Moral Economy of a Chilean Food Riot
The policies of a Latin American government drive food prices up; unions and neighborhood associations in the capital city organize a demonstration; the government caIls in the army; many people are killed; an uneasy truce prevails. As area specialists and indeed most newspaper readers and television watchers know, such sequences of events arc common in recent Latin American history. Such events seem familiar. not only because they appear regular…
Anthropology and the Conservation of Biodiversity
Conservation programs for protected areas and plant genetic resources have evolved in similar ways, beginning with a focus on single species and expanding to ecosystem strategies that involve the participation of local people. Anthropologists have described the increasing importance of the participation of local people in conservation programs, both of local populations in protected area management and of farmers in plant genetic resources. Both …
A conversation on Conversations: Conversations in Colombia: The Domestic Economy in Life and Text. STEPHEN Gude-MAN and Alberto Rivera
Rethinking the Politics of Anthropology: The Case of the Andes [and Comments and Reply]
The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru . Kent V. FLANNERY, Joyce Marcus, and Robert G. REYNOLDS
Irresolución Suprema y Autonomía Campesina: Los totorales del Lago Titicaca
En la década de los ochenta, el Perú vivió una severa crisis económica. Pero también hubo, en parte como consecuencia de la crisis, cambios importantes en la conceptualización de la economía nacional, tanto por parte de los "expertos" (economistas, funcionarios de alto nivel), como para muchos otros sectores. Una "segunda" economía peruana comenzó a ser parte del pensamiento económico oficial: la economía paralela, negra, informal, alternativa
Mapping reeds and reading maps: The politics of representation in Lake Titicaca
A dispute between government ministries and peasant communities over control of the reed beds in Lake Titicaca, Peru, in the 1970s led to a state of irresolution, with each side believing that the conflict had been resolved in its favor. In this article, maps drawn by both sides are examined in order to analyze the understandings that each side had of the conflict and to discuss the lack of resolution. The article elaborates a framework for the a…
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Pilgrims of the Andes: Regional Cults in Cusco . Michael J. Sallnow
Mountain anthropology and mountain anthropologists: The comparative study of populations at high elevations
Baker, Paul, and Corneille Jest, eds. L'Homme et Son Environnement à Haute Altitude: Environmental and Human Population Problems at High Altitude. Cahiers Népalais. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1981. 163 pp. including plates and bibliography. n.p. Cook, David Noble. The People of the Colca Valley: A Population Study. Dellplain Latin American Studies No. 9. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1982. xx+101 pp. including bibli…
Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: [The Central Andes and the Himalaya Compared]: Comments
Ricardo A. Godov, Christian E. Guksch, Jiro Kawakita, Thomas F. Love, Max Matter, Benjamin S. Orlove, [Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: The Central Andes and the Himalaya Compared]: Comments, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Aug., 1986), pp. 214-217
Barter and Cash Sale on Lake Titicaca: A Test of Competing Approaches [and Comments and Replies]
A review of recent work in economic anthropology finds three competing approaches: decision theory, culturalism, and neo-Marxism. These approaches are tested with data on four dimensions of the cash sale and barter of fish on Lake Titicaca, Peru. The first is somewhat more successful, although the others also explain some data. Comparisons are drawn with barter and cash sale elsewhere in the Andes
On Competing Models in Economic Anthropology
Theoretical and Methodological Considerations on the Study of Mountain Peoples: Reflections on the Idea of Subsistence Type and the Role of History in Human Ecology
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The History of the Andes: A Brief Overview
Benjamin S. Orlove, The History of the Andes: A Brief Overview, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 5, No. 1, Convergences and Differences in Mountain Economies and Societies: A Comparison of the Andes and Himalaya (Feb., 1985), pp. 45-60
Notes for a History of Peruvian Social Anthropology, 1940-80 [and Comments and Reply]
This article simply attempts to sketch a series of highlights related to the development of social anthropology in Peru in its professional phase, that is, the period since the 1940s, when the teaching and practice of social anthropology became institutionalized in Peruvian universities. It is necessarily a descriptive attempt, presenting the main institutions or specific research or applied projects that became the frame of reference for the for…
Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: The Central Andes and the Himalayas Compared [and Comments and Reply]
A model of the cultural ecology of tropical high mountains based on a comparison of the Central Andes and the Himalayas is presented. It is argued that mountain adaptations have three basic elements: (1) an array of vertical production zones, each characterized by a complex interaction of variables including agricultural regime, social organization, stratification, land tenure, labor organization, and level of productivity; (2) choice by the popu…
At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky: An Andean Cosmology
Foreword by R. T. Zuidema Preface Introduction 1. An Ethnographic and Calendrical Description of Misminay 2. The Organization and Structure of Space 3. The Sun and the Moon 4. Meteorological Lore 5. The Stars and Constellations 6. Collca: The Celestial Storehouse 7. Crosses in the Astronomy and Cosmology of Misminay 8. The Stars of the Twilight 9. Yana Phuyu: The Dark Cloud Animal Constellations 10. Summary and Conclusions Appendix: Stellar Const…
Ecological Anthropology
Communication and mental processes: Experiential and analytic processing of uncertain climate information
Anthropology and the Conservation of Biodiversity
Conservation programs for protected areas and plant genetic resources have evolved in similar ways, beginning with a focus on single species and expanding to ecosystem strategies that involve the participation of local people. Anthropologists have described the increasing importance of the participation of local people in conservation programs, both of local populations in protected area management and of farmers in plant genetic resources. Both …
Mapping reeds and reading maps: The politics of representation in Lake Titicaca
A dispute between government ministries and peasant communities over control of the reed beds in Lake Titicaca, Peru, in the 1970s led to a state of irresolution, with each side believing that the conflict had been resolved in its favor. In this article, maps drawn by both sides are examined in order to analyze the understandings that each side had of the conflict and to discuss the lack of resolution. The article elaborates a framework for the a…
Rethinking the Politics of Anthropology: The Case of the Andes [and Comments and Reply]
Alpacas, Sheep, and Men: The Wool Export Economy and Regional Society in Southern Peru
Meat and Strength: The Moral Economy of a Chilean Food Riot
The policies of a Latin American government drive food prices up; unions and neighborhood associations in the capital city organize a demonstration; the government caIls in the army; many people are killed; an uneasy truce prevails. As area specialists and indeed most newspaper readers and television watchers know, such sequences of events arc common in recent Latin American history. Such events seem familiar. not only because they appear regular…
Toward a Cultural Ecology of Mountains: The Central Andes and the Himalayas Compared [and Comments and Reply]
A model of the cultural ecology of tropical high mountains based on a comparison of the Central Andes and the Himalayas is presented. It is argued that mountain adaptations have three basic elements: (1) an array of vertical production zones, each characterized by a complex interaction of variables including agricultural regime, social organization, stratification, land tenure, labor organization, and level of productivity; (2) choice by the popu…
Barter and Cash Sale on Lake Titicaca: A Test of Competing Approaches [and Comments and Replies]
A review of recent work in economic anthropology finds three competing approaches: decision theory, culturalism, and neo-Marxism. These approaches are tested with data on four dimensions of the cash sale and barter of fish on Lake Titicaca, Peru. The first is somewhat more successful, although the others also explain some data. Comparisons are drawn with barter and cash sale elsewhere in the Andes
Notes for a History of Peruvian Social Anthropology, 1940-80 [and Comments and Reply]
This article simply attempts to sketch a series of highlights related to the development of social anthropology in Peru in its professional phase, that is, the period since the 1940s, when the teaching and practice of social anthropology became institutionalized in Peruvian universities. It is necessarily a descriptive attempt, presenting the main institutions or specific research or applied projects that became the frame of reference for the for…
Cultural styles of participation in farmers’ discussions of seasonal climate forecasts in Uganda
Integration Through Production: The use of zonation in Espinar1
This article analyzes several common themes in ecological and economic anthropology, particularly the emphasis on systems of distribution and the use of normative models of action. The applications of a recent theory in Latin American anthropology, the "verticality model," have been limited by these shared assumptions. Data from Espinar, a province in southern highland Peru, show the importance of systems of production and material constraints on…
Aggression and Hypoglycemia in the Andes: Another Look at the Evidence [and Comments and Replies]
In a Stirling-award winning article, Ralph Bolton offered a psychophysiological explanation for the notorious levels of aggression among the "Qolla" (Quechua and Aymara) Indians of the Peruvian altiplano. The long-standing anthropological characterization of these peasants as pathologically aggressive was supported by Bolton's finding that the community of Incawatana had one of the highest murder rates on record. He hypothesized that mild hypogly…
Identifying linkages between urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services using an expert opinion methodology
Tomar la bandera: Politics and punch in southern Peru
Irresolución Suprema y Autonomía Campesina: Los totorales del Lago Titicaca
En la década de los ochenta, el Perú vivió una severa crisis económica. Pero también hubo, en parte como consecuencia de la crisis, cambios importantes en la conceptualización de la economía nacional, tanto por parte de los "expertos" (economistas, funcionarios de alto nivel), como para muchos otros sectores. Una "segunda" economía peruana comenzó a ser parte del pensamiento económico oficial: la economía paralela, negra, informal, alternativa
Two Rituals and Three Hypotheses: An Examination of Solstice Divination in Southern Highland Peru
Revue des trois types d'explication de ce rituel andin: l'hypothese historique qui met l'accent sur la continuite avec le passe pre-colombien, l'hypothese sociologique axee sur la correspondance entre organisation sociale et activites rituelles, et l'hypothese basee sur le role des acteurs sociaux et qui prend en consideration l'effet du choix individuel sur la forme du rite. Application de ces trois hypotheses a l'analyse de deux rites divinatoi…
Credit, Stocks, and Price Transmission Mechanisms
The Sicuani Region: A Capsule Description
Local Uses of Wool in the Sicuani Region
The History of the World Wool Market
The Wool Economy in Southern Peru
The Distribution System
Agriculture and Artisans
The Pastoral Sectors: Herds, Herders, and Herd Owners
Introduction: Modernization, Dependency, and the Sectorial Model
Conclusions
Alpacas, sheep, and men: The wool export economy and regional society of southern Peru
Political Articulation in the Sicuani Region
Integration Through Production: The use of zonation in Espinar1
This article analyzes several common themes in ecological and economic anthropology, particularly the emphasis on systems of distribution and the use of normative models of action. The applications of a recent theory in Latin American anthropology, the "verticality model," have been limited by these shared assumptions. Data from Espinar, a province in southern highland Peru, show the importance of systems of production and material constraints on…
Resources and Population: A Study of the Gurungs of Nepal
Mountain Field and Family: The Economy and Human Ecology of an Andean Valley. STEPHEN B. BRUSH
Alpacas, Sheep, and Men: The Wool Export Economy and Regional Society in Southern Peru
Alpacas, Sheep, and Men: The Wool Export Economy and Regional Society in Southern Peru
Two Rituals and Three Hypotheses: An Examination of Solstice Divination in Southern Highland Peru
Revue des trois types d'explication de ce rituel andin: l'hypothese historique qui met l'accent sur la continuite avec le passe pre-colombien, l'hypothese sociologique axee sur la correspondance entre organisation sociale et activites rituelles, et l'hypothese basee sur le role des acteurs sociaux et qui prend en consideration l'effet du choix individuel sur la forme du rite. Application de ces trois hypotheses a l'analyse de deux rites divinatoi…
Apropos of the Typological Model of Social Change: In Memory of Marcelo Bormida [and Comments]
This article examines the evolution of the traditionalism-modernism model in Latin America and critically reviews several recent tests in the region that appear to suggest that the typology should be revised as a theoretical system explaining social change. With this statement as a general basis, five hypotheses are formulated, taking urbanization as the independent variable for attitude toward change, structural complexity, and social mobility. …
Ecological Anthropology
Land and Power in Latin America: Agrarian Economies and Social Processes in the Andes
Aggression and Hypoglycemia in the Andes: Another Look at the Evidence [and Comments and Replies]
In a Stirling-award winning article, Ralph Bolton offered a psychophysiological explanation for the notorious levels of aggression among the "Qolla" (Quechua and Aymara) Indians of the Peruvian altiplano. The long-standing anthropological characterization of these peasants as pathologically aggressive was supported by Bolton's finding that the community of Incawatana had one of the highest murder rates on record. He hypothesized that mild hypogly…
De l’empreinte à l’emprise: Identités andines et logiques paysannes
L’unité de ce Cahier tient au lieu : les hauts plateaux ou Altiplano des Andes péruviennes et boliviennes et, plus particulièrement la zone occupée par des populations de langue aymara. Quant à la problématique, elle est balisée par cette double évocation : celle de l’empreinte, celle de l’emprise. La première renvoie à l’ensemble des traits culturels et des pratiques sociales qui marquent la culture indienne. La seconde fait référence au double …
Tomar la bandera: Politics and punch in southern Peru
Notes for a History of Peruvian Social Anthropology, 1940-80 [and Comments and Reply]
This article simply attempts to sketch a series of highlights related to the development of social anthropology in Peru in its professional phase, that is, the period since the 1940s, when the teaching and practice of social anthropology became institutionalized in Peruvian universities. It is necessarily a descriptive attempt, presenting the main institutions or specific research or applied projects that became the frame of reference for the for…
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