The Spirit of Regeneration - Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development (Paperback)

This volume assembles a selection of the work which a group of specialists of peasant background have initiated since 1987. Their starting point is that development itself is the problem because its epistemologies and practices are alien to the indigenous peasantry. Instead, they believe that the native cultural and agricultural systems in the Andes are very much alive, environmentally respectful, and embody a viable, even if totally different, mode of being and understanding from the industrial West. The contributors to this volume are all Peruvian researchers and graduates of PRATEC, the Andean Project for Peasant Technologies, a network working to revitalise Andan agriculture. They present different facets of this Andean worldview which, while able to absorb elements from other cultures, exists on its own terms and within its own ongoing cosmology.

General

Imprint:	Zed Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 1998
First published:	May 1998
Editors:	Frederique Apffel Marglin • The Center for Mutual Learning (PRATEC)
Dimensions:	216 x 135 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-85649-548-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-85649-548-5
Barcode:	9781856495486

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