riddling and responsibility in Highland Peru

Bolton, Ralph

doi:10.1525/ae.1977.4.3.02a00060

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“…(4) Se puede encontrar información etnográfica sobre la comunidad de Santa Bárbara en las numerosas publicaciones resultantes de este proyecto de colaboración: Bolton y Bolton, 1972;Bolton, 1977Bolton, , 1978Bolton, , 1979Bolton y Calvin 1981;Bolton y Faust, s.f. ;Munroe et al, 1983;Thomas, Curtis y Bolton, 1978; y Thomas y Bolton, 1979.…”

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Pensando en papas: Una investigación cognitiva en la antropología agrícola

Bolton¹,

Faust²

2018

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Este artículo presenta algunos de los resultados de un estudio en antropología cognitiva que examinó cómo los agricultores de habla quechua en Cusco, Perú, piensan en los aspectos de la papa, su principal cultivo alimentario. En algunos atributos de la papa, existe una considerable concordancia entre los encuestados en el estudio, sobre todo en el sabor (dulzura) y la textura. Hay menos acuerdo sobre el tamaño del tubérculo y la resistencia a las heladas de las plantas. En cuanto a las papas que prefieren sembrar, los hombres tienden a estar de acuerdo, mientras que las mujeres no. En esta dimensión, existen diferencias significativas entre hombres y mujeres. En la medida en que las personas acuerden el nombre de una variedad de papa, es más probable que también estén de acuerdo con estos atributos. Subrayamos la importancia de comprender cómo los campesinos piensan sobre las actividades que son la base de su supervivencia económica, especialmente en condiciones de cambio climático.

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Pensando en papas: Una investigación cognitiva en la antropología agrícola

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Faust²

2018

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Andean Ethnology in the 1970s: A Retrospective

Salomón

1982

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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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 in past Andean communities made it possible, even in the heyday of development theories, to appreciate the modern Andean tradition as an active and creative rather than merely resistant presence. At the same time, events within the Andean republics called forth new interest in the indigenous tradition. In Peru the Velasco regime (1968–75), with its far-reaching intervention into rural institutions, received both support and criticism from those whose knowledge of the Quechua countryside seemed suddenly valuable. In Ecuador the post-1974 oil boom awakened hope for a more “integrated” national state, thereby provoking debate (as yet inconclusive) between pluralist and assimilationist approaches to the problems of the multiethnic highlands. In all the Andean countries regional and national research institutions with periodicals and monographs of their own took form. Generally outside universities, and sometimes with support from sectors of the Catholic Church increasingly open to the study of local belief, they produced distinctive schools of thought fruitfully different from the academic tradition proper. Regional meetings such as the Congresos del Hombre Andino indicated the coalescence of an Andean field of study across national boundaries. In some places, self-mobilization of Andean communities and experimentation with bilingual media and institutions raised hopes for a definition of the Andean situation from the Andean side, a definition not precast in terms familiar to the Hispanic-oriented outsider.

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Rote Learning and Semantic Clustering

Thomas¹,

Bolton²

1979

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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A one-trial free recall test was administered to 27 children in a Quechua-speaking community in the highlands of Canchis Province, Peru. The responses were used to assess hypotheses that rote memorization processes and semantic clustering are employed by these subjects to recall words. Presentation-recall order correlations, distances on the presentation list of items recalled adjacently, "recall" of items not presented, and a matrix of distances between words for all pairs of words are discussed. The results indicate that rote processing and semantic clustering are used by these subjects. Sex differences in patterns of response are also explored, and suggestions are made concerning future directions which might be followed in designing free recall tests for cross-cultural research.

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riddling and responsibility in Highland Peru

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Pensando en papas: Una investigación cognitiva en la antropología agrícola

Pensando en papas: Una investigación cognitiva en la antropología agrícola

Andean Ethnology in the 1970s: A Retrospective

Rote Learning and Semantic Clustering

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