The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies In The Andes

by Mayer,Enrique

• ISBN13: 9780813337166
• ISBN10: 081333716X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-08-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

"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.

Author Biography

Enrique Mayer is professor of anthropology at Yale University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
The Household in Perspective	1	(46)
House, Field, and Money	1	(3)
The Household in the Andes	4	(31)
The Household in the Community	35	(12)
Redistribution and Trade in Inca Society	47	(28)
The Ethnic Group	49	(3)
Economic Organization of the Inca State	52	(2)
Evidence for Trade	54	(1)
Trade in Luxuries	55	(3)
Marketplaces in Cities and Towns	58	(2)
Interecological Trade	60	(8)
The Growth of Trading in Colonial Times	68	(2)
Postscript	70	(5)
A Tribute to the Household: Domestic Economy and the Encomienda in Colonial Peru	75	(30)
Saturday, February 14, 1562	78	(1)
The Testimony	79	(10)
Household Types	89	(5)
The Burden of Tribute	94	(5)
Conclusions	99	(3)
Postscript	102	(3)
The Rules of the Game in Andean Reciprocity	105	(38)
How Reciprocity Works	105	(3)
Forms of Andean Reciprocity	108	(4)
Plowing and Harvesting	112	(4)
Exploitation with Reciprocity	116	(2)
Ceremonial Exchanges	118	(3)
Reciprocity, Redistribution and Symbolic Capital	121	(2)
Taxation	123	(5)
Counting and Sharing	128	(3)
The Limits of Reciprocity	131	(4)
Postscript	135	(8)
Aspects of Barter	143	(30)
Impurities	143	(2)
Harvest Failure	145	(3)
Strategies Intended to Overcome the Crisis	148	(3)
Barter: A Generalized Exchange System	151	(2)
Forms of Barter	153	(4)
Why Barter?	157	(11)
Postscript	168	(5)
Coca as Commodity: Local Use and Global Abuse	173	(32)
Coca's Economic Functions	174	(3)
Social Roles of Coca	177	(4)
Access to Coca and Ethnic Domination	181	(3)
Coca Substitution	184	(2)
The New Context in the Late 1990s	186	(5)
Aggressive Marketing	191	(4)
Respect for Coca	195	(2)
Undue Appropriation	197	(2)
Postscript	199	(6)
Alguito Para Ganar (``A Little Something To Earn''): Profits and Losses in Peasant Economies (with Manuel Glave)	205	(34)
Tulumayo and Paucartambo Valleys	210	(2)
Real Losses (Total Balances)	212	(5)
Monetary Balances and the Illusion of Profits	217	(3)
Subsistence Production Costs Money	220	(5)
Ethnography of Accounting	225	(5)
The Question of Subsidies	230	(4)
Postscript	234	(5)
Production Zones	239	(40)
A Myth	239	(1)
Introduction	240	(2)
Organization of Production Zones	242	(7)
The Dynamics in Production Zones	249	(12)
The Limitations of Village-Based Verticality	261	(5)
Individual Interest Groups in Villages	266	(4)
Conclusions	270	(2)
Postscript	272	(7)
Land Tenure and Communal Control in Laraos	279	(34)
The Community	281	(1)
The Puna and the Grazing Estancias	282	(1)
The Agricultural Zones	283	(8)
Diachronic Variation	291	(8)
Old Liberalism	299	(5)
Postscript	304	(9)
Household Economies Under Neo-Liberalism	313	(20)
Structural Readjustment	313	(3)
Neo-Liberalism	316	(2)
The Poor Household	318	(5)
Property	323	(4)
Neo-Liberal Approaches to Environmental Conservation	327	(6)
Glossary	333	(8)
References Cited	341	(34)
Index	375