The Native Leisure Class: Consumption and Cultural Creativity in the AndesIn the Andean city of Otavalo, Ecuador, a cultural renaissance is now taking place against a backdrop of fading farming traditions, transnational migration, and an influx of new consumer goods. Recently, Otavalenos have transformed their textile trade into a prosperous tourist industry, exporting colorful weavings around the world. Tracing the connections among newly invented craft traditions, social networks, and consumption patterns, Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld highlights the way ethnic identities and class cultures materialize in a sensual world that includes luxurious woven belts, powerful stereos, and garlic roasted cuyes (guinea pigs). Yet this case reaches beyond the Andes. He shows how local and global interactions intensify the cultural expression of the world's emerging "native middle classes," at times leaving behind those unable to afford the new trappings of indigenous identity. Colloredo-Mansfeld also comments on his experiences working as an artist in Otavalo. His drawings, along with numerous photographs, animate this engaging study in economic anthropology. |
Contents
Affluence Consumption and Cultural Improvisation | 32 |
Outsiders Wealth Race and Advancement 193094 | 57 |
Useless Things Subsistence Ethics and Native Identity | 87 |
Otavalos Transnational Archipelago | 120 |
The Artisan as Consumer Commercial FajaWeaving | 163 |
The Native Leisure Class | 188 |
Consumption and Cultural Concentration in the Andes | 216 |
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The Native Leisure Class: Consumption and Cultural Creativity in the Andes Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld No preview available - 1999 |
The Native Leisure Class: Consumption and Cultural Creativity in the Andes Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld No preview available - 1999 |
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Agato agrarian American anakus analysis Andean Anthropology archipelago Ariasucu artisans Bogotá Buitrón cash Celestina Chesca Chevrolet clothes Colloredo-Mansfeld Colombia commodities compadrazgo compadres consumption cooking craft Cuenca dealers Drawing earnings economic Economic Anthropology Ecuador Ecuadorian Enrique ethnic faja farming fields fiestas Galo's gas stoves gender global grain mills handicraft hearth household Imbabura Indians indígenas indigenous inventory kawsay Kayapo labor land Latin America live looms maize material culture Mercedes merchants mestizo migrants minga modern moral native neighbors nomic objects Otavaleños Otavalo Pan American Highway parents participants patio peasant Peguche pigs political ponchos practices production profits province Quichua Quinchuqui Quito rituals rural Santo sectors sell social society soup subsistence sweaters teenage textile tion tourist town trade traditional transnational Tulcan urban wealth weavers weaving wedding white-mestizo women workers yanga cosas young
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