""Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World" examines the structure, scale, and complexity of economic systems in the pre-Hispanic Americas, with a focus on the central highlands of Mexico, the Maya Lowlands, and the central Andes. Civilization in each region was characterized by complex political and religious institutions, highly skilled craft production, and the long-distance movement of finished goods. Scholars have ..."
"In 1952, Professor Allan Holmberg arranged for Cornell University to lease the Hacienda Vicos, an agricultural estate in the central Peruvian highlands on which some 1800 Quechua-speaking highland peasants resided. Between 1952 and 1957 Holmberg, with colleagues and students, initiated a set of social, economic, and agrarian changes, and nurtured mechanisms for community-based management of the estate by the resident peasants. By the en ..."
The Articulated Peasant Household Economies In The Andes by EnriqueMayer 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-429-97645-2, ISBN: 0-429-97645-3
"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."
"A Half Century of Applying Anthropology in Peru Tom Greaves, Ralph Bolton,
Florencia Zapata ... Pribilsky is a cultural and medical anthropologist and
associate professor of anthropology and Latin American studies at Whitman ...
migration, masculinity, infectious disease, the cultural politics of traditional
medicine, and eco- nomic change in rural livelihoods. ... Politics and Population
in Capitalist Development (1998), coauthor ..."
Latin America Otherwise Ser. Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform by EnriqueMayer Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-4453-7, ISBN: 0-8223-4453-X
"Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform reveals the human drama behind the radical agrarian reform process that unfolded in Peru during the final three decades of the twentieth century. That process began in 1969, when the left-leaning military government implemented a drastic program of land expropriation. Seized land was turned into worker-managed cooperatives. After those cooperatives began to falter and the country returned to ..."
"Watching marine birds circle in the sky and eating the most delicious fried fish of
my life, I was told that a few weeks previously the army had expropriated the
privately held sugar estates, the richest and most productive agricultural
enterprises in the country. Thirty-two years later, in 2001, I was walking with my
wife, Lidia Santos, on another beach. This time I was in East Haven, Connecticut.
I told her that I wanted to write ..."
The Articulated Peasant Household Economies In The Andes by EnriqueMayer Paperback, 412 Pages, Published 2001 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-8133-3716-6, ISBN: 0-8133-3716-X
"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 the relationship of the environment to sy ..."
The Articulated Peasant Household Economies in the Andes by EnriqueMayer Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2000 by Westview Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8133-3715-9, ISBN: 0-8133-3715-1