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AbstractABSTRACTThe Logic of Exchanges in thé Context of thé Inuit Winter FeastsThis article compares winter feasts of thé Baffin Island Inuit in order to show how they can be related within thé same Field of Anthropological Study. After having outlined thé gift-giving relationships enacted at each stage of a southern ceremony, thèse are compared with those in northern cérémonies. We then discuss thé manner in which reciprocal obligations between humans and spirits are created in Tivajuut as well as their spécifie properties with regards to anthropological models concerning gift-giving, more specially that of Marcel Mauss.Key words : Blaisel, Oosten, Inuit, Native people, feast, gift, ritual, symbolic System, method, Mauss
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Quechua ontologies presuppose that the places constituting the landscape are persons endowed with personhood, intentionality and agency. The places and mountains in particular are experienced as active and powerful members of society. Building over this Quechua perspective, this article historicizes the changing ways in which mountains participate within the power relations in the region of Cuzco (Peru). First, it pays attention to how mountains oppose, react to, or align themselves in relation to mining companies and local communities in the context of the recent mining boom associated with the neoliberal reforms of 1990s and the high metal prices. Then, using ethnographic texts produced in the region since the 1930s, the article sketches the ways in which mountains have been interacting with state institutions, landlords and Quechua communities during a good portion of the 20th century, using the 1969 Agrarian Reform as a watershed.
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