Poverty and Peasantry in Peru's Southern Andes, 1963-90

This study views the peasantry in the context of the historical experience of conquest and domination. Since the 1950s the community of Chilca has become more mobilized and confident, and increasingly affected by capitalism, urbanization, the Peruvian Revolution and agrarian reform.

Part 1 Background: introduction - the problem and method; approaches to the peasantry; the setting - nation, ecology, region and community; historical evolution of the peasantry; modern Peru 1895-1969. Part 2 Village community: Chilca in 1964; Chilca, 1964-76; Chilca in 1979; the unequal exchange model of peasantry. Part 3 Peasant solutions?: the Peruvian Revolution and its aftermath; agriculture, government policies and food import dependency; innovation and leadership; agrarian reform in the Pampa; migration, empathy and schooling; mobilization of the peasantry. Part 4 Peasant destinies and outcomes: agencies of change - dissolution of the peasantry?; Peru in 1990; Chilca in 1990.