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The Spirit of regeneration : Andean culture confronting Western notions of development / edited by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin ; with PRATEC.
Van Pelt Library F2230.1.C9 S657 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Andes Region.
- Indians of South America.
- Culture conflict.
- Economic development--Social aspects.
- Civilization.
- Andes Region.
- Andes Region--Civilization.
- Economic development--Social aspects--Andes Region.
- Economic development.
- Indians of South America--Andes Region--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Indians of South America--Andes Region--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Indians of South America--Agriculture--Andes Region.
- Indians of South America--Agriculture.
- Culture conflict--Andes Region.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Zed Books, 1998.
- Summary:
- This volume assembles for the first time in English a selection of the work which a group of Peruvian development 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, all of them Peruvians, 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.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Knowledge and Life Revisited / Frederique Apffel-Marglin 1
- Who and what is PRATEC? 1
- Culture and hybrid 8
- The implications of de-professionalisation 13
- Representational thinking versus conversation and mutual nurturance 26
- An alternative to both progressivism and fundamentalism 34
- Conclusion: knowledge and life reunited 41
- 2. Andean Peasant Agriculture: Nurturing a Diversity of Life in the Chacra / Julio Vallodolid Rivera 51
- Nature's mode of being in the Andes 52
- Nurturing heterogeneity in the chacra 56
- The nurturing of the chacra by the entire ayllu 78
- 3. The Ayllu / Grimaldo Rangifo Vasquez 89
- The ayllu 90
- Regeneration in the ayllu 96
- Authority 113
- The peasant community 117
- 4. Development or Cultural Affirmation in the Andes? / Eduardo Grillo Fernandez 124
- The living Andean world 127
- Plague or conquest? 129
- Healing ourselves of the plague 134
- Development: senile symptom of the plague 137
- Andean cultural affirmation 139
- 5. The Aymara Couple in the Community / Greta Jimenez Sardon 146
- The couple is raised by all the families ... and is also chastised by them 148
- 6. Education in the Modern West and in Andean Culture / Grimaldo Rengifo Vasquez 172
- Wisdom in Andean life: nurturing and allowing oneself to be nurtured 175
- Education in the modern West 181
- The school in the Andean world 188
- 7. Development or Decolonization in the Andes? / Eduardo Grillo Fernandez 193
- Imperialism and development 194
- The Andean mode of being and decolonization 220.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1856495477
- 1856495485
- OCLC:
- 39278309
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