The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community

Collection: Social Sciences

Genre: NONFICTION > Literary Non-Fiction

The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community

Catherine Allen

Role: Author

Written by a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient

This second edition of Guggenheim Fellow Catherine J. Allen’s distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. The book focuses on the very real problem of cultural continuity in a changing world, and Allen finds that the hold life has in 2002 is not the same as it was in 1985.