Residencia: the annual inspection of households in an andean community

This paper provides ethnographic detail on a practice in the Andes known as residencia, the annual inspection of households by community officers in the traditional cargo system. Going house to house, newly-inaugurated officeholders look for signs of cleanliness, animal husbandry, discipline of chil...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steve Froemming
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Institut Français d'Études Andines 2007-11-01
Series:Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/bifea/3521