LAND REFORM, SOCIAL CHANGE, AND MODERNIZATION IN THE NATIONAL PERIPHERY: A STUDY OF FIVE VILLAGES IN THE NORTHEASTERN ANDES OF PERU.
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Title
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LAND REFORM, SOCIAL CHANGE, AND MODERNIZATION IN THE NATIONAL PERIPHERY: A STUDY OF FIVE VILLAGES IN THE NORTHEASTERN ANDES OF PERU.
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Identifier
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AAI8401947
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identifier
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8401947
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Creator
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MORALES, EDMUNDO.
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Contributor
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Prof. William Kornblum
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Date
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1983
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Social Structure and Development
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Abstract
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The setting of the study is located in the province of Antonio Raimondi, Department (state) of Ancash.;Substantively, the analysis focuses on land distribution and the concomitant political context given to it. Conflict in the community created by the peasants' refusal to cooperate with the collective system of land exploitation introduced by the government, and further emphasized by the Mestizo leadership, has turned the peasants from feudal subjects to political victims of local, provincial, and national authorities and leaders who exploit them more, though differently, than the previous system.;The community's dependency on the underground cocaine economy now booming in the nearby jungle and the traditional use of coca as an exchange and consumer good in the Andes are introducing abrupt changes in the traditional society. The peasants of Paras support, and participate in, the cocaine underworld economy in three ways: (1) They, before even satisfying their minimum caloric needs, take their crops to the jungle to exchange for coca which they sell to the cocaine elaborators, (2) The traditional migration of the poor and the landless to metropolitan areas has partially shifted to the forests where the peasants work in macerating pools, as transporters of coca or cocaine, or as pickers of coca in the plantations; and (3) because of the peasants' contact with the underworld the use of cocaine among young peasants is becoming more and more fashionable.;The erroneous developmentalist policies of both the national government and independent agencies are aimed to modernize the backward national periphery and to impose a metropolitan life style through education, transportation, and basic health services which make the peasantry more dependent upon the central government. Agriculture, the peasantry's exclusive economic activity, does not have priority in the developmentalist programs and projects; this approach to development is referred to as "cosmetic development.".;The discussion concludes recommending the need of investment of capital in irrigation infrastructures, namely, from underground water to offer a better life to the indigenous people.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Sociology
