Herding at the Edges
Climate Change and Animal Restlessness in the Peruvian Andes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2143262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alyson Caine (0000-0003-2054-4729, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 827-847 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00141844.2022.2142266 |
| OpenAlex | W4308440258 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 61 |
This article examines the impacts of climate change on high-elevation Andean communities through the lens of human-animal relations. Andean herders and their animals coproduce hierarchical, cooperative, and antagonistic forms of social interaction, mediated through human-animal communication. The breakdown of communicative practice alerts herders to broader socioecological changes under persistent drought conditions. I illustrate this dynamic by following the chain of disruption: first as it emerges in daily herding encounters, and then as it ripples outward to impact community-level discussions on the future of pastoralism in the Andean highlands. I draw from the Quechua herding lexicon to show how microinteractional practices between humans and animals reflect the limits of hierarchical sociality in Andean ontologies and provide insight into the localised processes of socioecological fragmentation initiated by climatic changes. I suggest that the Quechua concept of restlessness (k'ita) provides a provocative analytic for evaluating the impacts of global climate change
Archaeology · Biology · Climate change · Environmental ethics · Geography · Herding · Livestock · Pastoralism · Sociality · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology
Humans and Animals in Northern Regions
Precarity, Precariousness, and Vulnerability
Climate change and tropical Andean glaciers
Crianzas mutuas. El trato a los animales desde las concepciones de los pastores puneños (Jujuy, Argentina)
Living Beings
Performativity, precarity, and Sexual Policies
Earth Beings
Feral Dynamics of Post-Industrial Ruin
Earth Beings
Mining, indigeneity, alterity
Intimate Indigeneities
Killing What You Love
Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric
Ladrones de sombra
Making Sense of Twenty-First-Century Climate Change in the Altiplano
Adapting to Climate Change in Andean Ecosystems
Animal Intimacies
Thinking Through Things
The politics of care in technoscience
Zeno and the Art of Anthropology
Characteristics of Precipitating Storms in Glacierized Tropical Andean Cordilleras of Peru and Bolivia
An Indigenous Feminist's Take On The Ontological Turn
When Utensils Revolt
Stones Who Love Me
Alpacas, Sheep, and Men
Horizon Work
The Mushroom at the End of the World
The Perception of the Environment
Enqa, Enqaychu illa y Khuya Rumi
Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice
Teaching the Dog and Learning from the Dog
The gift in the animal
The intimacies of power
Do Rocks Listen
Reverse Anthropology
Wildfires at the Edges of Science
What Gets Inside
Witness
On the ontological scheme of Beyond nature and culture
What kinship does-and how
Places are Kin
Cosmoecological Sheep and the Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
Radical Worlds
Language and the frontiers of the human
The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography
Indigenous Cosmopolitics in the Andes
The goat that died for family
Ontological anthropology and the deferral of critique
The semi-social mountain
Animal Autonomy and Intermittent Coexistences
Love and death of cattle
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |