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This volume brings together previously published ethnographic essays based on anthropological fieldwork in Northern Potosi, Bolivia, spanning the final 25 years of the 20th century. The articles discuss key concerns and cultural symbols of the indigineous peasants of the Andes: the importance of the land and practices relating to its continued fertility; the cult of the dead; the complex division of labour and forms of circulation within the indigenous economy; the work of gender; and the mythological figure of the Earth-mother.

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Olivia Harris is a reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. She has lived for a number of years in Bolivia, carrying out fieldwork, teaching and working as a consultant for the application of the 1994 Popular Participation Law in Northern Potosi. Her recent publications include Ethnicity, Markets and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of Anthropology and History (Duke University Press, 1995), and Inside and Outside the Law (Routledge 1996).

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