Linking Separate Worlds

This pathbreaking ethnography of population movements between rural and urban places in Peru addresses the conceptual and methodological problems of studying 'deterritorialized' populations and the implications of this for anthropology's notions of culture and identity.

Acknowledgements, List of Figures, List of Tables, 1. Looking beyond the Andes, 2. The Rise and Fall of Tapay, 3. Rural Consonance and Urban Discord, 4. Old and New Livelihoods, 5. Making the Best of Both Worlds, 6. Last to Arrive, First to Leave, 7. Other Ways of Being Tapeno, 8. From Sacrifice to Folklore, 9. Reconfiguring the Andean Mosaic, Glossary, Bibliography, Index