Eight Thousand Solutions to the Same Problem (original) (raw)

This is a translation from Spanish to English of Argentinian scholar Silvia Raquel Palomeque’s reminiscences of John Victor Murra as a mentor to women. Palomeque recalls the classes Murra taught at FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana e Ciencias Sociales) in Quito during 1984. Theoretical insights derived from participation in radical activism during the 1970s combined with political and economic theory to inform the scholarship of those who focused on popular or rural segments of societies. Murra encouraged students to see Andean societies in terms of their own internal logic and revealed that in his own view anthropology was a kind of militarism.