The sweet seduction of Atahualpa"s gold: betrayals and disagreement concerning the voracity of the lagoons in Cajamarca, Peru



Título del documento: The sweet seduction of Atahualpa"s gold: betrayals and disagreement concerning the voracity of the lagoons in Cajamarca, Peru
Revue: Anuário Antropológico
Base de datos:
Número de sistema: 000549192
ISSN: 2357-738X
Autores: 1
Instituciones: 1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Sao Lourenco do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil
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Volumen: 48
Número: 1
Paginación: 286-302
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Resumen en inglés Relationships among the peasants and the lagoons in rural communities situated in the northern Andes in Peru are ambiguous. The lagoons, located at the top of the mountains, appear as ferocious entities in the stories of local people. However, when these waters were threatened by a mining project, the peasants defended these lagoons with their own lives. This work aims to analyse narratives concerning the metamorphosis of humans when they are seduced by these lagoons. The paper is based on ethnographic research conducted between 2013 and 2014 in the village of El Tambo, in the district of Bambamarca, Hualgayoc Province, and the town of Celendín, Celendín Province. Both localities are within the region of Cajamarca in the Peruvian Andes. Besides this period of research, new reports and testimonies were collected in both localities during short visits between 2016 and 2020. Certain categories, like wild/tame, sweet/savoury, voracious/self-controlled, are essential to the analysis in order to understand the relationship between the seduction of the beings that inhabit the lagoons and the repudiation of the voracity of open-pit mining.
Resumen en portugués Relationships among the peasants and the lagoons in rural communities situated in the northern Andes in Peru are ambiguous. The lagoons, located at the top of the mountains, appear as ferocious entities in the stories of local people. However, when these waters were threatened by a mining project, the peasants defended these lagoons with their own lives. This work aims to analyse narratives concerning the metamorphosis of humans when they are seduced by these lagoons. The paper is based on ethnographic research conducted between 2013 and 2014 in the village of El Tambo, in the district of Bambamarca, Hualgayoc Province, and the town of Celendín, Celendín Province. Both localities are within the region of Cajamarca in the Peruvian Andes. Besides this period of research, new reports and testimonies were collected in both localities during short visits between 2016 and 2020. Certain categories, like wild/tame, sweet/savoury, voracious/self-controlled, are essential to the analysis in order to understand the relationship between the seduction of the beings that inhabit the lagoons and the repudiation of the voracity of open-pit mining.
Disciplinas: Antropología
Palabras clave: Etnología y antropología social
Keyword: voracity,
mining,
pacts,
prey
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