Organised in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against stock rustling and general thievery in Peru's rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds) grew into an entire system of peasant justice and one of the most significant Andean social movements of [...]
Using the influential and field-changing "Writing Culture" as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in "Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology" address anthropology's past, present and future. The contributors, all leading figures in anthropology today, reflect back on the "writing culture[...]