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The Dark Side of the Moon: Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Studying Rural and Urban Worlds in Peru
Author(s) -
Paerregaard Karsten
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1998.100.2.397
Subject(s) - identity (music) , sociology , relation (database) , space (punctuation) , great rift , gender studies , anthropology , ethnology , aesthetics , philosophy , linguistics , physics , database , astronomy , computer science
Recent anthropological theories deal with conceptualizations of culture and space. This article discusses these issues in relation to material from two different periods of fieldwork among villagers and migrants from a community in the Peruvian Andes. It demonstrates that their lives can only be understood when all ties of interdependence between the two groups are included in the analysis. It concludes that in a deterritorialized culture, territory plays a crucial role in people's identity, and living a double life does not imply having a double identity.