Nature and Culture in the Andes

To perceive the human world in co-existence with nature and thereby to nurture freedom and constructive processes we need to rethink the transformative literature of Rabindranath T...

Nature and Culture in the Andes. Daniel W. Gade. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.302 pp....

What was the meaning, for Inca record keepers, of the knotted cord constructions they produced as administrative records for the Inca state? In particular, how did these administra...

Alf Hornborg: Dual Organization, Hierarchy and the Logic of Quadripartition in Andean Societies. A Comparative Approach A comparative perspective can help t...

AbstractOrganisational culture is assumed to be a key factor in large-scale and avoidable institutional failures (e.g. accidents, corruption). Whilst models such as “ethical cultur...

AbstractThis study replicates Yamane, Ivory, and Yamane’s (Gun studies: interdisciplinary approaches to politics, policy, and practice, Routledge, New York, pp. 9–27, 2019) earlier...

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the highlands of Barinas, this article investigates the impact of “twenty-first century socialist” policies on the Andean peasantry and the relat...

Noopolitics is a neologism that designates how minds (nous) come to think collaboratively at the scale of populations, a phenomenon facilitated by increasingly sophisticated inform...