1st Edition
Inventing Indigenous Knowledge Archaeology, Rural Development and the Raised Field Rehabilitation Project in Bolivia
By Lynn Swartley
Copyright 2002
216 Pages
24 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
24 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
24 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This volume provides a multi-sited and multivocalic investigation of the dynamic social, political and economic processes in the creation and implementation of an agricultural development project. The raised field rehabilitation project attempted to introduce a pre-Columbian agricultural method into the contemporary Lake Titicaca Basin.
1. Introduction 2. Ethnic Groups and the State: From Tiwanaku to National Revolution in the Lake Titicaca Basin 3. Agrarian Policies, Indigenous Social Movements and Sustainable Development: The Contexts for Implementing a Bolivian Agricultural Development Project 4. Inventing Tradition and Development: The Representation of Raised Field Agriculture 5. Traditional Agricultural Practices: Contrasting Representations of Raised Fields with Production Factors at the Local Level 6. The Myth of the Idle Peasant Revisited: Access to Labor for Agriculture 7. Conclusion: Inventing Indigenous Knowledge and the Maintenance of Class and Ethnic Boundaries
Biography
Lynn Swartley