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Vicos and Beyond - A Half Century of Applying Anthropology in Peru (Hardcover)
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Vicos and Beyond - A Half Century of Applying Anthropology in Peru (Hardcover)
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In 1952, Professor Allan Holmberg arranged for Cornell University
to lease the Hacienda Vicos, an agricultural estate in the central
Peruvian highlands on which some 1800 Quechua-speaking highland
peasants resided. Between 1952 and 1957 Holmberg, with colleagues
and students, initiated a set of social, economic, and agrarian
changes, and nurtured mechanisms for community-based management of
the estate by the resident peasants. By the end of a second lease
in 1962, sufficient political pressure had been brought to bear on
a reluctant national government to force the sale of Vicos to its
people. Holmberg's twin goals for the Vicos Project were to bring
about community possession of their land base and to study the
process as it unfolded, advancing anthropological understanding of
cultural change. To describe the process of doing both, he invented
the term "participant intervention." Despite the large corpus of
existing Vicos publications, this book contains much information
that here reaches print for the first time. The chapter authors do
not entirely agree on various key points regarding the nature of
the Vicos Project, the intentions of project personnel and
community actors, and what interpretive framework is most valid; in
part, these disagreements reflect the relevance and importance of
the Vicos Project to contemporary applied anthropologists and the
contrasting ways in which any historical event can be explained.
Some chapters contrast Vicos with other projects in the southern
Andean highlands; others examine new developments at Vicos itself.
The conclusion suggests how those changes should be understood,
within Andean anthropology and within anthropology more generally.
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