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dc.contributor.advisorPlatt, Tristan
dc.contributor.advisorHyland, Sabine
dc.contributor.authorMartinez Santamaria, Luz
dc.coverage.spatial263 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-19T14:58:06Z
dc.date.available2021-03-19T14:58:06Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/21666
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is an exploration of how the Quechua-speaking peasants of the community of San Pablo de Inkawasi, in the Andes of northern Peru, make, grow or own things, domestic plants and animals and their own children; and which shows how these creative processes— and the bond of ownership that emerges from them—are central for articulating local notions of sociality and personhood. The relation of ownership is also central for giving meaning to their relations with the generative powers of the landscape and with the colonial and postcolonial State. The focus of this thesis is on the bond of mastery or ownership, responding to the necessity of underlining that all creative processes are thought of by the Inkawasinos as a continuous relationship that long precedes and follows the actual transformation (for example, the transformation of sheep wool into a poncho). Creative processes are understood as appropriations—transforming something or someone into one’s own—that create a permanent bond between creators and their creatures thought of in the language of kin. The relations created between creators and their creatures, assimilated to that between parents and children, are used to imagine a plural and unbounded person composed of relations with humans and other-than-humans. Relations of mastery or ownership are established not just between people and their belongings, but also between people and other owners—human or not—including those to which the Inkawasinos belong themselves: such as the mountains (Sirkakuna) or the Christian deities (Amitunchik). Mastery has been historically at the centre of the relations with the colonial and post-colonial States, which allows me to articulate personhood with the particular history of this Andean community, and with the challenges its members face in a world of increasingly contested ownership.en_US
dc.description.sponsorship"This investigation was generously financed with a Formación del Profesorado Universitario (FPU) grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education (Grant reference: AP2010-1578 EDU/61/2011), between December 2011 and December 2015, and supported between 2016 and 2017 by the Museo Nacional de Sicán." -- Acknowledgementsen
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectAnthropologyen_US
dc.subjectAndesen_US
dc.subjectPeruen_US
dc.subject.lccF3429.1L35M2
dc.subject.lcshQuechua Indians--Peru--Lambayeque (Dept.)--Social life and customsen
dc.subject.lcshIndians of South America--Andes Region--Social life and customsen
dc.subject.lcshMaterial culture--Peruen
dc.subject.lcshLand tenure--Peruen
dc.titleThe owners : creative processes and personhood in the peasant community of San Pablo de Inkawasi (Lambayeque, Peru)en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorSpain. Ministerio de Educación. Formación del Profesorado Universitario (FPU)en_US
dc.contributor.sponsorMuseo Nacional de Sicánen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17630/sta/46
dc.identifier.grantnumberAP2010-1578 EDU/61/2011en_US


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