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Mountain, field, and family: the economy and human ecology of an Andean valley

Stephen B. Brush 1977 © Stephen B. Brush
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  • 9780812277289 (hardcover)
  • 9781512800982 (ebook)
Subject
  • Native Peoples of the Americas
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Preface (page xi)
  • 1 The Andean Way: Cultural Adaptation to a Mountain Environment (page 1)
  • 2 Uchucmarca: The Village and its People (page 22)
  • 3 The Early History of Uchucmarca (page 40)
  • 4 The Formal Organization of Uchucmarca (page 54)
  • 5 Resources For Subsistence: Land (page 69)
  • 6 Agricultural Technology and Labor (page 91)
  • 7 The Exchange of Labor and Goods (page 104)
  • 8 The Myth of the Idle Peasant (page 117)
  • 9 How the Economy Works: The Role of Kinship (page 133)
  • 10 A Peasant Economy in the Modern World (page 153)
  • Appendix 1 (page 165)
    • Religious Celebrations
    • Secular Celebrations
  • Appendix 2 Potato Varieties (page 170)
  • Appendix 3 Food Yields from Uchucmarca Agriculture (page 174)
  • Bibliography (page 179)
  • Index (page 193)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AE 5.4 (Nov. 1978): 788-790 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28197811%295%3A4%3C788%3AMFAFTE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8
AA 82.2 (June 1980): 436-438 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28198006%292%3A82%3A2%3C436%3AEESEAE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
LARR 15.3 (1980): 229-239 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0023-8791%281980%2915%3A3%3C229%3AEMRATQ%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
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