Llamas, Weavings, and Organic Chocolate

by Healy, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9780268013264
• ISBN10: 0268013268
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-28
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Summary

Multicultural Grassroots Development in the Andes and Amazon of Bolivia

Author Biography

Kevin Healy is a Development Sociologist on the staff of the Inter-American Foundation, and teaches in the graduate program at George Washington University.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
National Integration within a Neo-Colonial Republic	1	(16)
The Biases of Western Aid	17	(22)
From Import Substitution to Globalization: A Tale of Two Economic Development Models	39	(25)
Indigenous Challenges to the Western Modernization Models	64	(31)
Dethroning Monocultures and Revitalizing Diversity	95	(28)
Cacao Bean Farmers Make a Chocolate-Covered Development Climb	123	(32)
The Quinoa Trail: From South American Salt Flats to Western Health Food Stores	155	(34)
Grassroots Development Trekking with Alpacas, Llamas, and Ayllus	189	(36)
Piloting Women's Popular Education	225	(23)
Remaking Urban Public Education with an Andean Cultural Twist	248	(19)
Recuperating a Wealth of Women's Weavings in the Valleys of Chuquisaca	267	(23)
An Artisans' Journey from the Rural Backlands to the Regional Capital	290	(37)
Digging for Indigenous Potato Knowledge in the Mountains of Rayqaypampa	327	(34)
The Mouse That Roared: An Amazonian March to the Andes for Land Rights	361	(35)
Blazing a Trail of Multicultural Grassroots Development for a New Millennium	396	(33)
Notes	429	(18)
Bibliography	447	(26)
Index	473