Emilia Ferraro

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer at University of Dundee

This paper explores the profoundly material dimensions of Andean Catholicism, an aspect that has been under-examined by anthropological inquiries of the Catholic expansion in the “New World”, and its role in developing a unique Andean “material” ontology. Recent discussions on the inseparability of mind and matter in Andean worldviews manifest thei...

A bstract In this thematic issue we offer anthropologically-informed snapshots of the different forms that wellbeing takes when approached from place-based perspectives. We are interested in highlighting and engaging with the undermining of place in the literature on wellbeing, which has produced a lack of appreciation for the role that culture pla...

This paper explicitly engages with recent debates in Ecological Economics on what mode of humanity and person the sustainability project requires (e.g. Becker, 2006; Siebenhüner, 2000) and responds to calls to widen our understanding of the human being beyond homo economicus (e.g. Bina and Guedes Vaz, 2011). Using the example of the increasing atte...

El libro nos habla de las diversas maneras en que en el mundo, se dan las transacciones de trueque. La introduccion es un supremo trabajo de sintesis de la manera en que a lo largo de su historia, la Antropologia ha mirado a las transacciones economicas, con la insercion de la importancia de los estudios sobre el trueque en los debates contemporane...

El trabajo de Victor Breton es un excelente ejemplo de solidez conceptual, fluidez linguistica y activismo politico en las ciencias sociales. El resultado final es un libro de lectura fluida -aunque no siempre facil-o en el cual no existen arbitrariedades y toda afirmacion esta bien argumentada. Un libro muy sugerente, desafiante e interpelador que...

Este artículo presenta la etnografía de trueque, un intercambio que se da en el Ecuador del Norte. La característica del trueque es que involucra simultáneamente el uso del dinero, animales y objetos, por ende estimula una reflexión sobre los debates antropológicos sobre dinero e intercambios. Sin embargo, trueque involucra también ideas, valores y...

This article analyses the celebration of the dead in the Quichua village of Pesillo, in the Northern Andes of Ecuador. My aim is to present a view of these celebrations from the viewpoint of the women participating in them. Unlike classical approaches to death in the Andes, my analysis presents the commemoration of the dead ‘from the kitchen’, in o...

This paper discusses the notion of debt in Pesillo, a Quichua community in Northern Ecuador. Using data from the Andes, a region underrepresented in the anthropological literature on exchange, and focusing on practices and relations of debt, that is, a topic little analysed in both economic anthropology and Andean ethnography, this paper demonstrat...

In a Quichua area of Ecuador milk marketing has traditionally been in the hands of nonindigenous people. In recent years the market has come into the hands of indigenous people, who use their kin relations to take it from mestizo intermediaries. The changes in the economy are paralleled by sociocultural changes in the villages, and in notions of wh...

Peter Wogan, Magical Writing in Salasaca: Literacy and Power in Highland Ecuador (Oxford: Westview Press, 2003), pp. xv+175, £15.50, pb. - - Volume 37 Issue 4 - EMILIA FERRARO

Este articulo se propone contribuir al debate sobre la dolarizacion, enriqueciendolo y complementandolo con datos obtenidos a partir de una mirada antropologica al tema, con el intento de fomentar el dialogo interdisciplinario absolutamente imprescindible para la comprension profunda de los fenomenos tan complejos que caracterizan el momento actual...

El presente trabajo es una entrevista a Maurizio Gnerre (1949), profesor de Etnolingüística en la Universidad de Estudios Orientales y Africanos de Nápoles (“L’Orientale”). Desde finales de los 60 lleva adelante investigaciones sobre las lenguas de las culturas Amazónicas. La entrevista ha sido realizada por Emilia Ferraro, profesora de FLACSO-Ecua...