Table of Contents

Introduction: Community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture

1. Reflections on fieldwork in Chuschi

2. Losing my heart

3. Deadly waters decades later

4. Yanque Urinsaya: ethnography of an Andean community (a tribute to Billie Jean Isbell)

5. Record keeping: ethnography and the uncertainty of contemporary community studies

6. Long lines of continuity: field ethnohistory and customary conservation

7. Avoiding community studies: the historical turn in Bolivian and South Andean anthropology

8. In love with comunidades

About the Author

Independent Researcher currently living in Galicia (Spain), where he is working on a research and media project about the political and social effects of the ongoing “Great Recession”, while also doing consulting, teaching and translation jobs.