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Author Mayer, Enrique

Title The Articulated Peasant : Household Economies in the Andes
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (409 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Household in Perspective; House, Field, and Money; The Household in the Andes; The Household in the Community; 2 Redistribution and Trade in Inca Society; The Ethnic Group; Economic Organization of the Inca State; Evidence for Trade; Trade in Luxuries; Marketplaces in Cities and Towns; Interecological Trade; The Growth of Trading in Colonial Times; Postscript; 3 A Tribute to the Household: Domestic Economy and the Encomienda in Colonial Peru; Saturday, February 14, 1562
The TestimonyHousehold Types; The Burden of Tribute; Conclusions; Postscript; 4 The Rules of the Game in Andean Reciprocity; How Reciprocity Works; Forms of Andean Reciprocity; Plowing and Harvesting; Exploitation with Reciprocity; Ceremonial Exchanges; Reciprocity, Redistribution and Symbolic Capital; Taxation; Counting and Sharing; The Limits of Reciprocity; Postscript; 5 Aspects of Barter; Impurities; Harvest Failure; Strategies Intended to Overcome the Crisis; Barter: A Generalized Exchange System; Forms of Barter; Why Barter?; Postscript; 6 Coca as Commodity: Local Use and Global Abuse
Cocaâ#x80;#x99;s Economic FunctionsSocial Roles of Coca; Access to Coca and Ethnic Domination; Coca Substitution; The New Context in the Late 1990s; Aggressive Marketing; Respect for Coca; Undue Appropriation; Postscript; 7 Alguito Para Ganar (â#x80;#x9C;A Little Something To Earnâ#x80;#x9D;): Profits and Losses in Peasant Economies (with Manuel Glave); Tulumayo and Paucartambo Valleys; Real Losses (Total Balances); Monetary Balances and the Illusion of Profits; Subsistence Production Costs Money; Ethnography of Accounting; The Question of Subsidies; Postscript; 8 Production Zones; A Myth; Introduction
Organization of Production ZonesThe Dynamics in Production Zones; The Limitations of Village-Based Verticality; Individual Interest Groups in Villages; Conclusions; Postscript; 9 Land Tenure and Communal Control in Laraos; The Community; The Puna and the Grazing Estancias; The Agricultural Zones; Diachronic Variation; Old Liberalism; Postscript; 10 Household Economies Under Neo-Liberalism; Structural Readjustment; Neo-Liberalism; The Poor Household; Property; Neo-Liberal Approaches to Environmental Conservation; Glossary; References Cited; Index
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Subject Indians of South America -- Peru -- Economic conditions
Indians of South America -- Land tenure -- Peru
Indians of South America -- Agriculture -- Peru
Peasants -- Economic aspects -- Peru
Home economics -- Peru -- History
Land use, Rural -- Peru -- History
Encomiendas (Latin America) -- History
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Peru
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
Economic history
Encomiendas (Latin America)
Home economics
Indians of South America -- Agriculture
Indians of South America -- Economic conditions
Indians of South America -- Land tenure
Land use, Rural
Peasants -- Economic conditions
SUBJECT Peru -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100194
Subject Peru
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429976452
0429976453