Mobility, Markets and Indigenous Socialities: Contemporary Migration in the Peruvian Andes - Paperback

by Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard (Author)

Exploring how people from Andean communities seek progress and social mobility by moving to the cities, Cecilie Ã~degaard demonstrates the changing significance of kinship, reciprocity and ritual in an urban context. The making and un-making of notions of the Indigenous, communal work, and gender is central in this analysis, and is discussed agains

Author Biography

Cecilie Vindal Ã~degaard works as a research fellow and teacher at a masters programme in Gender and Development, Department of Health Promotion and Development at the University of Bergen and has conducted several periods of fieldwork in Peru over a period of ten years. She has published several articles based on her work in Peru, on a range of different themes such as language and identity politics, gender and state policies, indigenous socialities and the participation in markets.