ACLS Humanities E-Book: Mountain, field, and family: the economy and human ecology of an Andean valley

Mountain, field, and family: the economy and human ecology of an Andean valley

Brush, Stephen B., 1943-

Year: 1977.

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press.

For full access to this item, please Login

table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Preface

1 The Andean Way: Cultural Adaptation 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 Economy Works: The Role of Kinship

10 A Peasant Economy in the Modern World

Appendix 1

Religious Celebrations

Secular Celebrations

Appendix 2 Potato Varieties

Appendix 3 Food Yields from Uchucmarca Agriculture

Bibliography

Index

reviews

catalog record

Title:

Mountain, field, and family : the economy and human ecology of an Andean valley Stephen B. Brush.

Author:

Brush, Stephen B., 1943-

Extent:

600dpi TIFF G4 page images

E-Distribution Information:

University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
Ann Arbor, Michigan
2008
Permission must be received for any subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact info@hebook.org for more information.

Source Version:

Mountain, field, and family : the economy and human ecology of an Andean valley Stephen B. Brush.
Brush, Stephen B., 1943-
[Philadelphia]: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977.

URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.03621

Subject Headings:

• Indians of South America -- Peru -- Economic conditions
• Peasantry -- Peru
• Peru -- Economic conditions -- 1968-

Note:

• Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required

Encoding Description:

Project Description:
	Header created via MARC-to-XML-to-TEI transformation on 2008-02-19
Editorial Declaration:
	This electronic text file was created by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). No corrections have been made to the OCR-ed text and no editing has been done to the content of the original document. Encoding has been done through automated and manual processes using the recommendations for Level 2 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines. Digital page images are linked to the text file.


Permanent URL for this title: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.03621.0001.001
Site created by the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library for ACLS Humanities E-Book © American Council of Learned Societies For more information, please contact info @ hebook.org