Mountain, Field, and Family : The Economy and Human Ecology of an Andean Valley /

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Ann...

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Front matter --
Contents --
List of Maps, Figures, Tables, and Illustrations --
Acknowledgments --
Preface --
1. The Andean Way: Cultural Adaptations to a Mountain Environment --
2. Uchucmarca: The Village and Its People --
3. The Early History of Uchucmarca --
4. The Formal Organization of Uchucmarca --
5. Resources for Subsistence: Land --
6. Agricultural Technology and Labor --
7. The Exchange of Labor and Goods --
8. The Myth of the Idle Peasant --
9. How the Economyj Works: The Role of Kinship --
10. A Peasant Economy in the Modern World --
Appendix 1. Religious Celebrations --
Appendix 2. Potato Varieties --
Appendix 3. Food Yields from Uehuemarea Agriculture --
Bibliography --
Index
1. Verfasser:
Brush, Stephen B. (VerfasserIn, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Körperschaft:
American Council of Learned Societies
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Ausgabe:
Reprint 2016
Zusammenfassung:
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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1 online resource (xiv, 199 p., [5] leaves of plates ) ill. ;
Issued also in print.
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781512800982
1512800988
Schlagworte:
Indians of South America > Peru > Economic conditions.
Peasants > Peru.
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