{"id":448,"date":"2014-11-23T11:41:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T16:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/socanth\/?post_type=cu_people&p=448"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:23:46","slug":"gose-peter","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/people\/gose-peter\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Gose"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gose was raised in Vancouver and did his BA in Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (1979) then moved to the London School of Economics to do his MSc (1980) and PhD (1986) in Social Anthropology. He began his research career as an ethnographer of the Peruvian Andes, exploring how peasant mortuary and sacrificial rituals articulate relations of production, property and political power. In the late 1980s, he turned to historical research on ritual and political power under the Incas. Since 1993, he has done extensive archival research on Spanish colonialism in the Andes and its \u201cextirpation of idolatry\u201d campaigns, which resulted in a recent book on the inter-cultural politics of ancestor worship. Before coming to Carleton as Chair of Sociology and Anthropology, his previous appointments were at the University of Lethbridge (1987-1994) and the University of Regina (1994-2005).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Areas of Current Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the help of an SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2009-2012), he is now investigating the peculiarities of \u201cpurity of blood\u201d as an early modern Spanish racism, both in the Iberian peninsula and South America. This research addresses relations between racism, honour and nobility, racializing displacements of class and gender tensions, and the interaction between nationalism and colonialism in the historical development of this particular racism. He also maintains long-standing interests in hermeneutics, practice theory, and hegemony theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Carleton, he has taught a fourth year undergraduate seminar in Varieties of Practice Theory (ANTH 4215) and graduate courses in Theory and Methods in Anthropology (ANTH 5402), Signs and Symbols (ANTH 5403), Research Design (ANTH 5812), and the Doctoral Seminar in Anthropology (ANTH 6000). Among his teaching interests are Colonialism and Post-Colonialism, Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, the Anthropology of Ritual, Symbolic Anthropology, Social Organization, Economic Anthropology, Ethnographic Fieldwork, Andean Ethnography and Andean Ethnohistory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following are among his publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invaders as Ancestors: On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 380 pp. 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deathly Waters and Hungry Mountains: Agrarian Ritual and Class Formation in an Andean Town. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 325 pp. 1994. [Spanish editions by Editorial Mama Huaco 2001 and Abya Yala 2004]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Articles and Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConverting the Ancestors: Indirect Rule, Settlement Consolidation, and the Struggle over Burial in Colonial Peru, 1532-1614,\u201d pp. 140-174 in (eds.) K. Mills and A. Grafton Conversion: Old Worlds and New. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe State as a Chosen Woman: Brideservice and the Feeding of Tributaries in the Inka Empire.\u201d American Anthropologist 102\/1: 84-97, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEl estado incaico como una \u2018mujer escogida\u2019 (aqlla): Consumo, tributo en trabajo y la regulaci\u00f3n del matrimonio en el incanato,\u201d pp. 457-473 in (ed.) Denise Arnold M\u00e1s all\u00e1 del silencio: las fronteras del g\u00e9nero en los andes. La Paz: CIASE\/ILCA, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Past is a Lower Moiety: Diarchy, History, and Divine Kingship in the Inka Empire.\u201d History and Anthropology 9\/4: 383-414, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOracles, Mummies, and Political Representation in the Inka State.\u201d Ethnohistory 43\/1: 1-33, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLes Momies, les Saints et les Politiques d\u2019Inhumation au Perou, au XVIIe Si\u00e8cle.\u201d Recherches Am\u00e9rindiennes au Qu\u00e9bec 25\/2: 35-51, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cContra Pascual Haro: Un Proceso de Idolatr\u00edas, Cuzco 1697.\u201d Ciencias Sociales 1\/1: 203-18, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEmbodied Violence: Racial Identity and the Semiotics of Property in Huaquirca, Antabamba (Apurimac),\u201d pp. 165-198 in (ed.) D. Poole Unruly Order: Violence, Power and Identity in the Southern High Provinces of Peru (19th to 20th Centuries). Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSegmentary State Formation and the Ritual Control of Water under the Incas.\u201d Comparative Studies in Society and History 35\/3: 480-514, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHouse Rethatching in an Andean Annual Cycle: Practice, Meaning and Contradiction.\u201d American Ethnologist 18\/1: 39-66, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLabour and the Materiality of the Sign: Beyond Dualist Theories of Culture.\u201d Dialectical Anthropology 13\/2: 103-21, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSacrifice and the Commodity Form in the Andes.\u201d Man 21\/2: 296-310, 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Peter","cu_people_last_name":"Gose","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[41],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-448","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","hentry","cu_people_type-professors-emereti"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor Emeritus","cu_people_degree":"PhD (London School of Economics)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"peter.gose@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23171,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/448\/revisions\/23171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}