Lexington Books
Pages: 186
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4985-7515-7 • Hardback • May 2020 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
978-1-4985-7516-4 • eBook • May 2020 • $85.50 • (£66.00)
Anita Carrasco is associate professor of anthropology at Luther College.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Likantatay: Portable Landscape of an Urban Indigenous Community
Chapter Two: The Social Life of Water: The Stories of Turi and Toconce
Chapter Three: The Cosmopolitics of a Sacred Mountain
Chapter Four: Cupo, An Out-of-the-World Village of Atacama
Chapter Five: El Ingeniero Gringo (the American Engineer)
Chapter Six: Remembering the Pipelines of Chuquicamata Mine
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
Embracing the Anaconda is the work of a passionate writer who draws on long-term ethnographic experience to tell the stories of those who live with the ‘slow violence’ of copper mining and water extraction in the Atacama Desert. In a conversational style, with humor and scholarly detail, Anita Carrasco shows us how the bodies of men and women, Indigenous peoples and geologists, and mules and llamas are connected into the multidimensional industrial and ecological histories of the region. This book is a deeply personal account of the professional insights that come from connections with place, associations with people, and surprising finds in archival collections. Compelling as a series of character-filled stories, it is also a strong contribution to the social scientific understanding of extractive realities of the past and present.
— Sally Babidge, Anthropologist, The University of Queensland, Australia