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Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric

Through a richly detailed examination of the practices of spinning yarn from

the ﬂeece of llamas and alpacas, Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric explores the rela-

tionships that herders of the present and of the past have maintained with their

herd animals in the Andes. Dransart juxtaposes an ethnography of an Aymara

herding community, based on more than ten years’ fieldwork in Isluga in the

Chilean highlands, with archaeological material from excavations in the Atacama

desert. Relevant historical evidence is adduced.

This work investigates the material culture of pastoral communities at the

transition from a hunting and gathering way of life over three thousand years

ago, its relationship with domestic processes, and how spinning and weaving in

contemporary Isluga express the values of a herding way of life. These values are

intimately related to the perceived importance of the landscape, with its resources

of earth and water, in the transformation of pasture into fleece. Impeccably

researched, this book is the first systematic study to set the material culture of

pastoral communities against an understanding of the long-term effects of herding

practices. It offers original insights into understanding gender relations among the

herders, who establish the working relationships with their animals that enable

them to produce yarns and fabrics, while also adopting a dynamic perspective on

studying technical changes that have occurred in textile production in the Andes.

Penelope Z. Dransart is Chair of the Department of Archaeology at the

University of Wales, Lampeter. Previous publications include Elemental Meanings:

Symbolic Expressions in Inka Miniature Figures (1995) and Andean Art: Visual

Expression and its Relation to Andean Beliefs and Values (1995).

Earth, Water, Fleece

and Fabric

An ethnography and archaeology

of Andean camelid herding

Penelope Z. Dransart

London and New York

First published 2002

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Dransart, Penny.

Earth, water, ﬂeece, and fabric: an ethnography and archaeology

of Andean camelid herding / Penelope Z. Dransart.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ).

1. Aymara Indians—Agriculture. 2. Pastoral systems—Chile.

3. Aymara textile fabrics—Chile. 4. Camelidae—Chile. I. Title.

F2230.2.A9 D73 2002

305.5

55—dc21

2001048679

ISBN 0-203-21973-2 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-27480-6 (Adobe eReader Format)

(Print Edition)

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ISBN 0–415–27959–3

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