Lynn Swartley

Inventing Indigenous Knowledge

Archaeology, Rural Development and the Raised Field Rehabilitation Project in Bolivia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides a multi-sited and multivocalic investigation of the dynamic social, political and economic processes in the creation and implementation of an agricultural development project. The raised field rehabilitation project attempted to introduce a pre-Columbian agricultural method into the contemporary Lake Titicaca Basin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 305mm x 232mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 1356g
• ISBN-13: 9780415935647
• ISBN-10: 0415935644
• Artikelnr.: 21894324

Autorenporträt

Lynn Swartley

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction2. Ethnic Groups and the State: From Tiwanaku to National
Revolution in the Lake Titicaca Basin3. Agrarian Policies, Indigenous
Social Movements and Sustainable Development: The Contexts for Implementing
a Bolivian Agricultural Development Project4. Inventing Tradition and
Development: The Representation of Raised Field Agriculture5. Traditional
Agricultural Practices: Contrasting Representations of Raised Fields with
Production Factors at the Local Level6. The Myth of the Idle Peasant
Revisited: Access to Labor for Agriculture7. Conclusion: Inventing
Indigenous Knowledge and the Maintenance of Class and Ethnic Boundaries