Empresarios, minas y campesinos

Restrictions and options in Bolivian mining companies

Authors

  • Ricardo A. Godoy Harvard Institute for International Development (United States)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v17i26.1019

Keywords:

peasants

Abstract

The most distinguished anthropological studies on risk have a common characteristic: peasant agriculture. Anthropologists delight in pointing to the "institutional context" (Wolf 1969; XV) and the farming techniques used by peasants to reduce the chances of crop failure and market uncertainties. A partial list of such techniques includes: inter-row planting, plot dispersal, and planting of different species or varieties of the same crop. Social mechanisms to reduce uncertainty include patron-client relationships, sharecropping, redistribution of land and crops, reciprocity in food and labor, and strategic marriage alliances.

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Published

1985-12-13

How to Cite

Empresarios, minas y campesinos: Restrictions and options in Bolivian mining companies. (1985). Allpanchis, 17(26), 71-113. https://doi.org/10.36901/allpanchis.v17i26.1019