Story 1. Agreeing to remember, translating, and carefully co-laboring --
Interlude 1. Mariano Turpo : a leader In-Ayllu --
Story 2. Mariano engages "the land struggle" : an unthinkable Indian leader --
Story 3. Mariano's cosmopolitics : between lawyers and Ausangate --
Story 4. Mariano's archive : the eventfulness of the ahistorical --
Interlude 2. Nazario Turpo: "the Altomisayoq who touched heaven" --
Story 5. Chamanismo Andino in the third millennium : multiculturalism meets earth-beings --
Story 6. A comedy of equivocations : Nazario Turpo's collaboration with the National Museum of the American Indian --
Story 7. Munayniyuq : the owner of the will (and how to control that will).

"Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial connections between them, de la Cadena presents how the Turpos' indigenous ways of knowing and being include and exceed modern and nonmodern practices. Her discussion of indigenous political strategies--a realm that need not abide by binary logics--reconfigures how to think about and question modern politics, while pushing her readers to think beyond "hybridity" and toward translation, communication that accepts incommensurability, and mutual difference as conditions for ethnography to work."--Back cover.