Returning to Q'ero

Steven Webster taught Social Anthropology and Maori Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand 1972 - 1998, and after retiring continued as an Honorary Research Fellow at his alma mater the University of Washington, Seattle, as well as at Auckland, and as a visitor at the Northwest Indian College and Princeton University.

• Prologue: a Retrospective Ethnohistory.-Part I:  Q'ero and the Peruvian Andes 1969 - 1977.-Introduction: Participant Observation among the Q'eros [field-notes, 1972 preface, and 1977 journal].- Chapter 1: Earlier Empires [colonisations, nation, and hacienda dominion;1972 ms Chs 1-3 annotated with 1971, 1973, and 1981 articles (pseudonym dropped)].- Chapter 2: Runa, Cholo, Misti, and Wiracocha: Indigeneity and Ethnicity in the Andean Highlands [1972 ms Chs 1-3 annotated with 1971, 1973, 1980, and 1981 articles (pseudonym dropped)].- Part II:  Ecological and Social Integration of a Transhumant Community in the Andean Highlands.- Chapter 3: Verticality and Transhumance [1972 ms Chs 4 and 5 with field-notes, annotated with 1971, 1973, and 1974 articles (pseudonym dropped)].- Chapter 4: Subsistence Cycles, Strategies, and Rituals of Reciprocity [1972 ms Chs 6 and 7 with field-notes, annotated with 1971 and 1973 articles].- Chapter 5: Domestic Groups, Kinship and Affinity, and Social Rank [1972 ms Chs 7 and 8 with field-notes, annotated with 1977 and 1974 articles (pseudonym dropped)].- Part III:  Sustainability, Extractivity, and Q'ero since the 1970s.-Chapter 6: Indigeneity, Tourism, and Extractivism in the Cuzco Region [Chs 1- 5 above, in view of Salas de Carreño, de la Cadena, Gose, and Meyer (see attached bibliography)].- Chapter 7: Shamanism, Reciprocity, and Extractivism in Q'ero [Chs 1-5 above, in view of de Cometti, Wissler, and Salas de Carreño (see attached bibliography)].- Chapter 8: Sustaining Indigeneity against Commodity Fetishism [Chs 1-5 above, in view of Taussig, Gose, Graeber, and Webster (see attached bibliography)].- Conclusions.