Frank Salomon
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 96090 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Frank Salomon |
| PRENOMES | Frank |
| SOBRENOME | Salomon |
| ASSINATURA | SALOMON F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1409-2711 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 81 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 582 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Tristan Platt
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Canciones para los hatos y los cultivos
Rapaz, a community in the upper Checras (province of Oyón), has a temple in the hills that organizes Andean practice and ritual. It uses Quechua I from the Yaru variety, with current endangered language status. This ethnography focuses on songs that sacralize agriculture and another ritual dialogue dedicated to the promotion of cattle. Next, it considers the relevance of phenomenological methodology for developing an anthropology of religion that…
Tristan Platt (1944-2024)
Revista Procesos es una publicación académica semestral producida por el Área de Historia. Se propone difundir investigaciones sobre el pasado de los países andinos y sudamericanos, y promover el debate historiográfico
Reading the Illegible
The anonymous, undated, and untitled Quechua-language book known as the Huarochirí Manuscript has no peer as a source from an early colonial Andean culture and not just about one. In thirty-one chapters and two supplements, a narrator-redactor presents the rites, customs, and ancestral stories about several deities and large non-Inca descent groups who in Inca times invaded down to the Pacific as far as the mighty pilgrimage center of Pachacámac.…
La etnohistoria reorientada
Revista Procesos es una publicación académica semestral producida por el Área de Historia. Se propone difundir investigaciones sobre el pasado de los países andinos y sudamericanos, y promover el debate historiográfico
The Cord Keepers
American Society of Ethnohistory Lifetime Achievement Award 2018 Recipients
Susan M. Deeds, Professor Emeritus of History, Northern Arizona University. It is a great honor and personally a deeply felt pleasure to present this dedication to Susan M. Deeds, for her richly deserved ASE Lifetime Achievement Award. Susan has contributed immeasurably to the development of the ASE through her direct involvement in the Society and in her career of creative research and inspired teaching and mentorship of students, postgraduate f…
Andean Cosmopolitans
They were never supposed to sail to Spain in the first place, said royal law. But some native Andeans did cross the Atlantic, and hovered around Hapsburgian centers among the indianos or returned colonists. They sought titles and honors for themselves and their lineages while also litigating on behalf of their native communities, or, toward the mid-colonial era, becoming procurators for assorted claims pressed in Peru’s congested legal circuits. …
At the Mountains’ Altar
At the Mountains' Altar
A little palace of analogies
This chapter examines one quadrant of Descola's ethnological paradigm, and not to explain the whole fourfold model. In totality, the model daringly claims to provide theorized niches for all anthropologically known systems for organizing cognition. Our immediate purpose, however, is to see how Descola's notion of "analogy" clarifies Rapaz's view of the sociable universe. In Descola's reading, totemism, like naturalism, is "mononatural": it percei…
A temple by night
By the 1990s most North American cultural anthropologists had long since put Richard Dawkins on their blacklist. By relativist logic he just doesn't get it: every natural fact is a fact only as reckoned within a given cultural frame, a "lifeworld." The cultural subdiscipline set about to uphold its stature within the increasingly science-oriented spectrum of academe by positioning itself as the champion of critical science studies, of "engaged sc…
Tradiciones culturales y transformaciones coloniales. Una visita personal
Las Visitas personales de indios como inspecciones administrativas fueron largamente utilizadas en el mundo colonial, su interpretación ha dado especial énfasis a su valor como instrumento financiero para el cobro de tributos y como un reflejo de la organización social de la época. En el presente artículo se sugiere una lectura diferente, mirar estos papeles como escenarios de poder, en los que interesan principalmente los procesos de escenificac…
At the Mountains’ Altar
In high-Andean Peru, Rapaz village maintains a temple to mountain beings who command water and weather. By examining the ritual practices and belief systems of an Andean community, this book provides students with rich understandings of unfamiliar religious experiences and delivers theories of religion from the realm of abstraction. From core field encounters, each chapter guides readers outward in a different theoretical direction, successively …
Claudia Brosseder. The Power of Huacas
Huaca was a colonial Hispano-Quechua word for indigenous sacred places or ancestors who engaged with humans in reciprocal sustenance. Much of what we know about them comes from seventeenth-century ecclesiastical trials of their devotees. Claudia Brosseder is the author of a 2004 monograph on the Wittenberg Lutheran reformer Caspar Peucer and his association with Philipp Melanchthon. As an erudite student of the Protestant Reformation she sees in …
Una etnohistoria poco étnica. Nociones de lo autóctono en una comunidad campesina peruana
Los años noventa, época en la cual el significado transcultural de la "historicidad" llegó a ser tema candante dentro de la teoría antropológica, alternaron algunos fundamentos de la vocación etnohistórica. ¿Cuánta variación cultural existe entre los diversos conceptos del tiempo y del cambio? ¿Hasta qué punto aquellas diferencias gobiernan la actuación histórica de los pueblos? Al contemplar tales preguntas, el debate teóricodentro de la etnohis…
El Quipu Colonial
Book Review| July 01 2014 El Quipu Colonial: Estudios Y Materiales El quipu colonial: Estudios y materiales. Edited by Petrocchi, Marco Curatola and de la Luna Puente, José Carlos. (Lima: Pontífica Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013. 443 pp., introduction, notes, bibliography. $28 paper.) Frank Salomon Frank Salomon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (3): 601–602. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-26…
Vertical Empire
Book Review| April 01 2014 Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes Vertical Empire: The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes. By Mumford, Jeremy Ravi. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. $89.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.) Frank Salomon Frank Salomon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2014) 61 (2): 385–387. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2414307 Cite Icon C…
Supermán Es Más Súper Cuando Se Quita La Malla
En las etapas tempranas del colonialismo lle-gaban a oidos de los espanoles noticias de grupos humanos cuyos perfiles resultaron borrosos. ?Como designarlos? ?Pueblos? ?Naciones? ?Reinos? ?Senorios? ?Behetrias? La misma terminologia estaba en flujo y cada categoria llevaba consigo implicancias politico-legales problematicas. Sin embargo, la organizacion categorica de la humanidad recien conocida en America constituyo una labor ineluctable, consec…
The Lettered Mountain
A Visit to the Children of Chaupi Ñamca
Often, our sources for languages of the past are mythic and prescriptive rather than empirical and descriptive ones: narratives of gods, laws, and so on. As much as we treasure them for linguistic and cultural reasons, for historical and archaeological purposes we would also like to know whether practice actually matched ideals. This chapter presents a method for getting from sacred norms to social history. It concerns the only known book that pr…
The lettered mountain
"Andean peoples joined the world of alphabetic literacy nearly 500 years ago, yet the history of their literacy has remained hidden until now. In The Lettered Mountain, Frank Salomon and Mercedes Niño-Murcia expand notions of literacy and challenge stereotypes of Andean “orality” by analyzing the writings of mountain villagers from Inka times to the Internet era. Their historical ethnography is based on extensive research in the village of Tupico…
Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform
Book Review| April 01 2011 Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform. By Mayer, Enrique. Latin America Otherwise Series. Mignolo, Walter D., Silverblatt, Irene, and Saldíver-Hull, Sonia, eds. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. 323 pp., photographs, tables, maps. $23.95 paperback). Frank Salomon Frank Salomon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (2): 35…
Guest Editors' Introduction
Salomon and Hyland edited the special issue - Graphic Pluralism: Native American Systems of inscription and the Colonial Situation
Passages à l’âge d’homme
Staple Finance, Wealth Finance, and Storage in the Inka Political Economy [and Comments and Reply]
The development of the regionally integrated institutions of an expanding state society is predicated on the growth of systems of economic support. Both expansion of existing systems of finance and the development of alternative systems of revenue, such as tribute, administered exchange, and centralized taxation, may be of central importance to the state political economy. This paper examines the reorganization of the economic systems of the Inka…
The Huarochirí manuscript
This work represents the most fulsome and developed narrative available to us of how local people in a provincial setting in the Inca Empire conceived of their society and its past . . . This book will stand for some time as the definitive transcription and English translation of a seminal document in Andean cultural history.
How an Andean "Writing Without Words" Works
Recent writings on khipus (Andean knottedcord records) invoke writing without words, a nearsynonym of Gelbs semasiography, to argue that some American media refer directly to cultural things without functioning as a secondary code for speech. Sampson suggests that in principle such a system could constitute a nonverbal parallel language. However, no ethnography actually shows whether Andean codes do so, much less reconstructs lost ones. This stud…
Shamanism and politics in late-colonial Ecuador
Study of 18th-century "witchcraft" trials from the Audiencia de Quito indicates that many acts of magical aggression and defense belonged to the South American tradition of shamanic combat but that the conflicts provoking them derived from specifically colonial stresses. Due in part to the poor fit between jurally mandated institutions of colonial governance and the dynamics of native communities, shamanic achievement continued to be a route to i…
A ‘personal visit
Indian Women of Early Colonial Quito as Seen Through Their Testaments
By the turn of the seventeenth century a generation of Andean natives, both Inca and aboriginal, had made lifelong homes within the strongholds of the European invaders. As they entered old age they inhabited an urban landscape whose “Indian” sector had become very diverse. In Quito and other colonial cities some of them dwelled in old pre-hispanic settlements whose closeness to new Hispanic centers had turned them into multiethnic “Indian” ghett…
Unethnic Ethnohistory
This article is an exercise in relocating academic ethnohistory vis-à-vis vernacular ethnohistorical thinking in two respects. First,it questions whether the metahistorical native versus white opposition, which forms an all-but-unquestioned premise of most ethnohistorical paradigms, at all matches local paradigms. Second, it compares academia's "own"way of getting at colonial and postcolonial historical problems with the unofficial paleography (a…
How the huacas Were
A North Andean Status Trader Complex under Inka Rule
In the northernmost peripheries of the Inka Empire (northern Ecuador and Narifo Province, Colombia), an aboriginal status-trading complex resembling Mexican pochteca survived through and after Inka rule. Politically sponsored traders called mindalaes supplied aboriginal lords with sumptuary goods, and sometimes redistributed wealth so as to build political influence. Inkas' partial tolerance of this complex may reflect need for access to resource…
Names and Peoples in Incaic Quito
When analyzed statistically, the distribution of verbal elements in some written sources, like that of objects in archeological sites, yields culture‐historical data independent of artifacts' intended meaning. A 1559 case study from highland Ecuador uses personal names and their parts to detect cultural differences in aboriginal society and their changing relation to superordinate Inca culture. This can be done even with undeciphered names from a…
Guest Editors' Introduction
Salomon and Hyland edited the special issue - Graphic Pluralism: Native American Systems of inscription and the Colonial Situation
Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas
Andean Ethnology in the 1970s
The 1970s witnessed an outpouring of research on the Andean cultural tradition sufficient to place Andean studies among the well-established regional subspecialties of anthropology. Among the historic factors converging to produce this abundance was the emergence of a generation of fieldworkers trained by ethnohistorians such as John Murra, John Rowe, Herman Trimborn, and R. T. Zuidema. Their understanding of historical and intellectual activity …
Testimonios en Triángulo
84) ha analizado con lujo de detalle el intrincado litigio fichado como "Pleito segundo entre Antonio Guamanyanac y Geronimo Caxayauri 1588", existente en el Archivo General de la Nación, Buenos Aires (ms.9-45-5-15).Según Espinoza Soriano, el litigio de 1588-1590 y sus secuelas hasta 1599 representan las etapas avanzadas de un arraigado conflicto entre dos kurakazgos importantes del valle del río Rímac: el señorío o waranka Inka de
Una etnohistoria poco étnica. Nociones de lo autóctono en una comunidad campesina peruana
Los años noventa, época en la cual el significado transcultural de la "historicidad" llegó a ser tema candante dentro de la teoría antropológica, alternaron algunos fundamentos de la vocación etnohistórica. ¿Cuánta variación cultural existe entre los diversos conceptos del tiempo y del cambio? ¿Hasta qué punto aquellas diferencias gobiernan la actuación histórica de los pueblos? Al contemplar tales preguntas, el debate teóricodentro de la etnohis…
Vernacular literacy on the Lake Titicaca high plains, Peru
S Ethnographic “New Literacy Studies” question the idea that literacy as such has any uniform effects, arguing instead that effects of literacy inhere in the social practices that impart it. What change, then, does literacy produce where it arrived from two opposed sets of practices? In Quechua‐ and Aymara‐speaking villages on the high plains of Lake Titicaca, universal public schooling is a relatively recent innovation. It overlays an unofficial…
Los Quipocamayos
Entre las "escrituras perdidas" del mundo antiguo ninguna resulta más desconcertante que la de los viejos khipus. Pero ¿en realidad ésta se ha perdido definitivamente? Este libro demuestra que los khipus tuvieron una larga y sorprendente trayectoria en coexistencia con lo que ha venido llamándose la "ciudad letrada" colonial y republicana. Nos encontramos, sin duda alguna, ante un brillante estudio etnográfico de su sobrevivencia. Partiendo de da…
Systèmes politiques verticaux aux marches de l'Empire inca
Que s'est-il passé dans les sociétés andines après leur soumission au Tawantinsuyu ? Les chroniques ne nous ont transmis que les versions incaïques et insistent sur la générosité de l'État et sur son influence civilisatrice, sur la diffusion de ses cultes et sur l'établissement de structures politiques idéales, à l'image de celles de Cuzco. Or ces versions laissent sans réponse deux questions capitales. On ignore tout d'abord la nature des sociét…
John Victor Murra (1916-2006)
Collca y sapçi
En la década de 1970, Murra propuso investigar los derivados posttawantinsuyu del sistema inka de almacenes (qullka) mediante el estudio del término colonial "sapçi". Tanto en el texto de Guaman Poma (1615) como en el manuscrito quechua de Huarochirí (1608) utilizan este vocablo oscuro para denominar lo almacenado para uso comunal. Hoy, los mismos pueblos donde se recogieron las narrativas de Huarochirí poseen edificios llamados collcas; ellas co…
Why did the Anasazi All Live in National Parks
Colin G. Calloway, "Why did the Anasazi All Live in National Parks?": Indian Histories, Hemispheric Contexts, and "America's Beginnings", The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Jul., 2001), pp. 703-711
Una polémica de once años de antigüedad
Starn empuña una polémica de once años de antigüedad, y al hacerlo rememora un pasaje significativo en la historia intelectual. ¿Cuán exitosamente ha problematizado el enfoque de "los antropólogos" (por el cual se refiere a aquellos graduados en los Estados Unidos) con respecto a los Andes durante las décadas de 1970 y 1980? Él ha establecido una distancia analítica suficiente como para practicar los productor, pero no como para problematizarlos …
Cultural/Ethnology
Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest
Systèmes politiques verticaux aux marches de l'Empire inca
Que s'est-il passé dans les sociétés andines après leur soumission au Tawantinsuyu ? Les chroniques ne nous ont transmis que les versions incaïques et insistent sur la générosité de l'État et sur son influence civilisatrice, sur la diffusion de ses cultes et sur l'établissement de structures politiques idéales, à l'image de celles de Cuzco. Or ces versions laissent sans réponse deux questions capitales. On ignore tout d'abord la nature des sociét…
Wizard of the Four Winds
Andean Ethnology in the 1970s
The 1970s witnessed an outpouring of research on the Andean cultural tradition sufficient to place Andean studies among the well-established regional subspecialties of anthropology. Among the historic factors converging to produce this abundance was the emergence of a generation of fieldworkers trained by ethnohistorians such as John Murra, John Rowe, Herman Trimborn, and R. T. Zuidema. Their understanding of historical and intellectual activity …
The Masked Media
Shamanism and politics in late-colonial Ecuador
Study of 18th-century "witchcraft" trials from the Audiencia de Quito indicates that many acts of magical aggression and defense belonged to the South American tradition of shamanic combat but that the conflicts provoking them derived from specifically colonial stresses. Due in part to the poor fit between jurally mandated institutions of colonial governance and the dynamics of native communities, shamanic achievement continued to be a route to i…
Cultural/Ethnology
Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest
The Historical Development of Andean Ethnology
Frank Salomon, The Historical Development of Andean Ethnology, 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. 79-98
Staple Finance, Wealth Finance, and Storage in the Inka Political Economy [and Comments and Reply]
The development of the regionally integrated institutions of an expanding state society is predicated on the growth of systems of economic support. Both expansion of existing systems of finance and the development of alternative systems of revenue, such as tribute, administered exchange, and centralized taxation, may be of central importance to the state political economy. This paper examines the reorganization of the economic systems of the Inka…
Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas
By the time of Columbus, the people of Ecuador's tropical highlands had created small but remarkably complex and interlinked political societies. These small societies for many years proved able to fight off the overwhelming might of the Inca state. But around 1500 they fell to Inca invaders who, in turn, soon lost their dominion to Spanish warlords. Frank Salomon draws on large stores of sources to reconstruct the political and economic institut…
The llajtakuna
The rule of native lords narrowly defined was a communal matter, most clearly visible when studied most locally. But the political economy within which the “cacique” operated only becomes visible when one studies the circum-Quito region as a whole. In the present chapter the aboriginal communities will be identified and grouped into small phytogeographical regions in order to highlight their environmental variety and suggest the differentials in …
Names and Peoples in Incaic Quito
When analyzed statistically, the distribution of verbal elements in some written sources, like that of objects in archeological sites, yields culture‐historical data independent of artifacts' intended meaning. A 1559 case study from highland Ecuador uses personal names and their parts to detect cultural differences in aboriginal society and their changing relation to superordinate Inca culture. This can be done even with undeciphered names from a…
A North Andean Status Trader Complex under Inka Rule
In the northernmost peripheries of the Inka Empire (northern Ecuador and Narifo Province, Colombia), an aboriginal status-trading complex resembling Mexican pochteca survived through and after Inka rule. Politically sponsored traders called mindalaes supplied aboriginal lords with sumptuary goods, and sometimes redistributed wealth so as to build political influence. Inkas' partial tolerance of this complex may reflect need for access to resource…
Guaman Poma
Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas
Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas
Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas
The problem of the 'paramo Andes' 2. The llajtakuna 3. Local and exotic components of llajta economy 4. Interzonal articulation 5. The dimensions and dynamics of chiefdom polities 6. The Incaic impact 7. Quito in comparative perspective Notes Glossary References Index
Indian Women of Early Colonial Quito as Seen Through Their Testaments
By the turn of the seventeenth century a generation of Andean natives, both Inca and aboriginal, had made lifelong homes within the strongholds of the European invaders. As they entered old age they inhabited an urban landscape whose “Indian” sector had become very diverse. In Quito and other colonial cities some of them dwelled in old pre-hispanic settlements whose closeness to new Hispanic centers had turned them into multiethnic “Indian” ghett…
Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas
Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas
The Huarochirí manuscript
This work represents the most fulsome and developed narrative available to us of how local people in a provincial setting in the Inca Empire conceived of their society and its past . . . This book will stand for some time as the definitive transcription and English translation of a seminal document in Andean cultural history.
"Respuesta a "Nota critica sobre native lords of Quito in the age of the incas”
No presenta resumen
La “Yumbada”
En el drama ritual Yumbo Huañuchiy (“Matanza del Yumbo”), los habitantes de los suburbios industriales que rodean a Quito por el norte y noreste se disfrazan de shamanes selvícolas para representar un asesinato mágico. La ceremonia ha gozado en los últimos años de una extraordinaria popularidad. Entre fábricas y multifamiliares, y absolutamente sin intervención de patrocinadores gubernamentales o artísticos, se reunen cada temporada de Corpus mil…
Una polémica de once años de antigüedad
Starn empuña una polémica de once años de antigüedad, y al hacerlo rememora un pasaje significativo en la historia intelectual. ¿Cuán exitosamente ha problematizado el enfoque de "los antropólogos" (por el cual se refiere a aquellos graduados en los Estados Unidos) con respecto a los Andes durante las décadas de 1970 y 1980? Él ha establecido una distancia analítica suficiente como para practicar los productor, pero no como para problematizarlos …
Religion in the Andes
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