Mountain, Field, and Family
The Economy and Human Ecology of an Andean Valley
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 2016
224 pages
978-1-5128-0098-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Reprint 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-5128-0098-2 (9781512800982)
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BrushStephen B.:
Stephen B. Brush is Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology at the University of California, Davis.
Stephen B. Brush is Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology at the University of California, Davis.
Content
- Intro
- 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
