Etnografía, Arqueología y recursividad en la comunidad alfarera de Chipihuayco (Modesto Omiste, Bolivia)

Abstract

In this paper I present a general discussion, using a “recursive” approach, of ideas and concepts that I consider important to improve the study of ceramic production by Andean communities. I understand this as a “nuclear practice”. Based on archaeological ethnography, I discuss the notion of community as an “assembly” of human and non-human agencies, and “affective networks” as a means of social “commitment”. To exemplify my approach to analysis, I present the case of the pottery community of Chipihayco, located in the valleys of southern Bolivia.

Keywords

• Archaeological ethnography
• recursion
• nuclear practice
• pottery community
• southern Bolivia