Towards a digital anthropology in the Peruvian Andes: theories and studies

This paper explores theories and studies to a proposal for digital anthropology in the Peruvian Andes. On the one hand, this paper explains the theoretical foundations on which digital anthropology in the Peruvian Andes is base on, emphasizing 1) The origins of digital anthropology (on a political economy of the mass media and post-colonial approach to new ICT); and 2) Digital technology as social practice (on the discourses as micro-representations ideological and power relationships; the uses and conditions of productive, economic and technical domestication; the role of contexts, actors, purposes and results; and a policy of digitization in the processes of empowerment and inclusion). On the other hand, this paper presents a bibliographical balance of the studies on the new ICT in the Peruvian Andes (on identity expression, productive development and formal education in the Andean world).