Mountain, Field, and Family : : The Economy and Human Ecology of an Andean Valley / / Stephen B. Brush.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Ann...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1978 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anniversary Collection
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps, Figures, Tables, and Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1. The Andean Way: Cultural Adaptations to a Mountain Environment
- 2. Uchucmarca: The Village and Its People
- 3. The Early History of Uchucmarca
- 4. The Formal Organization of Uchucmarca
- 5. Resources for Subsistence: Land
- 6. Agricultural Technology and Labor
- 7. The Exchange of Labor and Goods
- 8. The Myth of the Idle Peasant
- 9. How the Economyj Works: The Role of Kinship
- 10. A Peasant Economy in the Modern World
- Appendix 1. Religious Celebrations
- Appendix 2. Potato Varieties
- Appendix 3. Food Yields from Uehuemarea Agriculture
- Bibliography
- Index