Alison Spedding

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Alison Louise Spedding (born January 22, 1962 in Belper , Derbyshire , England ) is a British anthropologist and writer of fantasy and science fiction novels.

Life

Alison Spedding studied archeology and anthropology at King's College, and later philosophy . Between 1986 and 1988 she traveled to Bolivia for field research for the first time . In 1989, she earned a doctorate from the London School of Economics for PhD in social anthropology .

In 1989 Spedding moved to Bolivia . She dealt with the culture of the Aymara and taught anthropology and ethnology of the Andes at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz . Spedding has become a critic of the Bolivian government's tough policy on coca farmers there . In May 1998 she was arrested for possession of marijuana ; she was released on bail in 2000. While academic circles suspect the arrest was for political reasons, Spedding denied it.

Publications

While in Britain, Spedding wrote a trilogy of fantasy novels set in the time of Alexander the Great . In the novels, Alexander dies and a female protagonist, Aleizon Ailix Ayndra , takes his role in the story. She later wrote three novels in Spanish ( Manuel y Fortunato , El viento de la cordillera and the anarcho-feminist science fiction novel De cuando en cuando Saturnina ) and a collection of short stories ( El tiempo, la distancia, otros amantes ). Under the pseudonym "Alicia Céspedes Ballet" she published a play ( Un gato en el tejar ). Speddings' novel De cuando en cuando Saturnina was included in the list of the 200 most important literary works of Bolivia in 2009 on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Bolivian struggle for independence.

Trilogy The Gates of Power

  • Clouds of war . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-426-70158-4 (original title: The Road and the Hills . New York 1986.).
  • The dark throne . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-426-70159-1 (original title: A Cloud over Water . New York 1988.).
  • The last dawn . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-426-70160-7 (original title: The Streets of the City . New York 1988.).

Individual fiction publications

  • El tiempo, la distancia, otros amantes. Cuentos 1989-1993 . Carrera de Literatura, Facultad de Humanidades, 1994, LCCN  96-137080 .
  • Manuel y Fortunato. Una picaresca andina . Aruwiyiri, La Paz 1997, OCLC 39740896 .
  • Viento de la Cordillera. Un thriller de los 80 . Mama Huaco, La Paz 2001, OCLC 834214361 .
  • De cuando en cuando Saturnina. Una historia oral del futuro . Mama Huaco, La Paz 2004, ISBN 978-99905-0-483-5 .

Specialist literature

  • Wachu Wachu. Cultivo de coca e identidad en los Yungas de la Paz . La Paz 1994, OCLC 31166860 .
  • Kausachun Coca. Economía campesina cocalera en los Yungas y el Chapare . Programa de Investigación Estratégica en Bolivia, La Paz 2004, OCLC 60544554 .
  • Religión en los Andes. Extirpación de idolatrías y modernidad de la fé Andina . nstituto Superior Ecuménico Andino de Teología, La Paz 2008, OCLC 778236367 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alison Spedding. fantasticfiction.com, accessed February 24, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Jesos S. Espasandin and Pablo Iglesias Turrion (eds.): Bolivia en movimiento. Acción colectiva y poder político . Ediciones De Intervención Cultural, Barcelona 2007, ISBN 978-84-96831-25-4 , pp. 380 .
  3. ↑ Madeline Barbara Léons and Harry Sanabria (eds.): Coca, Cocaine, and the Bolivian Reality . State University of New York Press, New York 1997, ISBN 978-0-7914-3481-9 , pp. 301 .
  4. ^ AL Spedding: Coca Eradication: A Remedy for Independence? - with a Postscript . In: Anthropology Today . tape 5 , no. 5 , October 1989, p. 4-9 , doi : 10.2307 / 3032958 .
  5. ↑ a b Steve Boggan: 'I won't knit - and I won't jump bail'. The Independent , October 20, 2000, accessed February 23, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Alex Bellos: Bolivia bails Briton jailed on drug charge. The Guardian , October 4, 2000, accessed February 24, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Bolivia. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, April 3, 2015, accessed February 24, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Lista de las obras de la Biblioteca del Bicentenario de Bolivia. (No longer available online.) Centro de Investigaciones Sociales de la Vicepresidencia, archived from the original on December 15, 2016 ; accessed on February 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Spedding, Alison
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spedding, Alison Louise; Céspedes Ballet, Alicia (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British anthropologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Belper , Derbyshire