Ecology and Exchange in the Andes

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2007
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-04034-1 (ISBN)

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For centuries Andean civilization and ecology has afforded a special fascination for European travellers and officials. In this volume, eight writers - anthropologists, economists and historians working in Bolivia, Britain, France, Ireland and Peru - describe and analyse aspects of rural society in various Andean regions. They focus on the impact of capitalist development on both the peasant economy and the landed elite in the Andes and the ways in which that impact has been shaped by a specific Andean culture and a characteristic Andean ecology and climate. Their discussion of Andean specificity centres on the notion of verticality, first developed by John Murra to describe political and economic adaptation to climatic variation in the Andean eco-system. The volume represents a substantial contribution to our understanding of Andean rural society and the nature of the Latin American peasantry and peasant economy. It will appeal to all those interested in economic anthropology, Latin America, peasant studies and the capitalist world-economy.

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Andean societies and the theory of peasant economy David Lehmann; 2. The role of the Andean ayllu in the reproduction of the petty commodity regime in Northern Potosi (Bolivia) Tristan Platt; 3. Labour and produce in an ethnic economy, Northern Potosi, Bolivia Olivia Harris; 4. 'Resistance to capitalism' in the Peruvian Andes Barbara Bradby; 5. Production and market exchange in peasant economies: the case of the southern highlands in Peru Adolfo Figueroa; 6. The Andean economic system and capitalism Rodrigo Sánchez; 7. Property and ideology: a regional oligarchy in the Central Andes in the nineteenth century Fiona Wilson; 8. Multi-levelled Andean society and market exchange: the case of Yucay (Peru) Antoinette Fioravanti-Molini'e; Glossary; References; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.9.2007
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	391 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-521-04034-5 / 0521040345
ISBN-13	978-0-521-04034-1 / 9780521040341
Zustand	Neuware