1st Edition
The Articulated Peasant Household Economies In The Andes
By Enrique Mayer
Copyright 2002
412 Pages
by
Routledge
412 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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Based on Enrique Mayer’s 30 years of research in Peru, this collection of new and revised essays presents in one accessible volume Mayer’s most significant statements on Andean peasant economies from pre-colonial times to the present. The Articulated Peasant is therefore noteworthy as a sustained examination of household economies through changing historical circumstances, while considering also... Read more
Preface -- The Household in Perspective -- Redistribution and Trade in Inca Society -- A Tribute to the Household: Domestic Economy and the Encomienda in Colonial Peru -- The Rules of the Game in Andean Reciprocity -- Aspects of Barter -- Coca as Commodity: Local Use and Global Abuse -- Alguito Para Ganar (“A Little Something to Earn”): Profits and Losses in Peasant Economies -- Production Zones -- Land Tenure and Communal Control in Laraos -- Household Economies Under Neo-Liberalism
Biography
Enrique Mayer
