Changing Fortunes
Subtitle: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, 1)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 29, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780520203037
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; Development studies; Management of land & natural resources; Human Ecology; Human Geography; Archaeology / Anthropology; Peru; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Biodiversity; Biological diversity; Conservation of natural resour; Conservation of natural resources; Paucartambo (Province)
Description: "Brilliant study of the relationship between crop plant biodiversity, peasant behavior, and the larger society dispells some long held assertions about Andean farming. Based on fieldwork conducted during the 1980s in the highland portion of Paucartambo prov. (Cusco)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.