Lynn Swartley

Inventing Indigenous Knowledge

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

• Broschiertes 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9781138973312
• ISBN-10: 1138973319
• Artikelnr.: 49663078

Autorenporträt

Lynn Swartley

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Ethnic Groups and the State: From Tiwanaku to National
Revolution in the Lake Titicaca Basin 3. Agrarian Policies, Indigenous
Social Movements and Sustainable Development: The Contexts for Implementing
a Bolivian Agricultural Development Project 4. Inventing Tradition and
Development: The Representation of Raised Field Agriculture 5. Traditional
Agricultural Practices: Contrasting Representations of Raised Fields with
Production Factors at the Local Level 6. The Myth of the Idle Peasant
Revisited: Access to Labor for Agriculture 7. Conclusion: Inventing
Indigenous Knowledge and the Maintenance of Class and Ethnic Boundaries