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In the central Andes of Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia high mountains, deep valleys, and the seemingly inhospitable high grasslands-the . Small villages occupied by peasants speaking Quechua or Aymara dot the landscape.

In the central Andes of Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia high mountains, deep valleys, and the seemingly inhospitable high grasslands-the stark punas-testify to the human capacity to occupy even the most extreme environments. Alpine and subtropical climates are traversed in a day's walk over often precipitous foot and animal paths. Inca and pre-Inca ruins attest to the long domination of the peasant by early states. Spectacular terraces sculpted into the mountains demonstrate the centrality of farming.

Boulder: Wesrview Press, 2002. Here we discuss how the Andean camelid herders of Sajama National Park in highland Bolivia rely on both the ayllu and family-level decision-making to manage their pastoralist landscapes, including their bofedales. Using a rights mapping methodology, we describe how water and wetlands are managed, and determine which decisions are taken at the community level and which are made at the family level.

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 systems of land use, agricultural production, and economic exchange among ecological zones. Though the volume stresses the Andean context, its relevancy is wider.

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The Articulated Peasant" presents an overview of Enrique Mayer s foundational contribution to an understanding of peasant economies in the Andes from Inca times to the present, stressing the underlying basic elements that define a peasant economy within a changing cultural.

The Articulated Peasant" presents an overview of Enrique Mayer s foundational contribution to an understanding of peasant economies in the Andes from Inca times to the present, stressing the underlying basic elements that define a peasant economy within a changing cultural context of the Inca and colonial tributary economy to today s neo-liberal market dominated economies. Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales).

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