Lives together / worlds apart

In this book the author seeks to understand the deep and subtle frameworks of meaning in the disparate experiences of, on the one hand, migrant Peruvian highlanders settled in Lima and, on the other, the village community in the jungle region of Chanchamayo they have left. Focusing on traditional conceptions of separation and connectedness (frequent themes expressed in the thoughts and actions of migrants from the village of Matapuquio), this Andean ethnography addresses questions of general interest concerning individual identity in collectivities undergoing transformation.