Inventing Indigenous Knowledge - Archaeology, Rural Development and the Raised Field Rehabilitation Project in Bolivia

This volume provides a multi-sited and multivocalic investigation of the dynamic social, political and economic processes in the creation and implementation of an agricultural development project. The raised field rehabilitation project attempted to introduce a pre-Columbian agricultural method into the contemporary Lake Titicaca Basin.

List of contents

1. Introduction2. Ethnic Groups and the State: From Tiwanaku to National Revolution in the Lake Titicaca Basin3. Agrarian Policies, Indigenous Social Movements and Sustainable Development: The Contexts for Implementing a Bolivian Agricultural Development Project4. Inventing Tradition and Development: The Representation of Raised Field Agriculture5. Traditional Agricultural Practices: Contrasting Representations of Raised Fields with Production Factors at the Local Level6. The Myth of the Idle Peasant Revisited: Access to Labor for Agriculture7. Conclusion: Inventing Indigenous Knowledge and the Maintenance of Class and Ethnic Boundaries

About the author

Lynn Swartley

Summary

This volume provides a multi-sited and multivocalic investigation of the dynamic social, political and economic processes in the creation and implementation of an agricultural development project. The raised field rehabilitation project attempted to introduce a pre-Columbian agricultural method into the contemporary Lake Titicaca Basin.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Swartley, Swartley Lynn
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.10.2002
• EAN: 9780415935647
• ISBN: 978-0-415-93564-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Weight: 570 g
• Illustrations: farbige Illustrationen
• Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, Anthropology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Bolivia, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Agricultural science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies