Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past
century in ideology shared by populism, postmodernism and the political right, the argument …

Many works about agragarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations are
to be eliminated in the course of capitalist development. This text argues that the incidence …

These days there is a recognisable form of academic folie de grandeur, whereby as one
gets older, an individual begins to regard him/herself as an all-purpose cultural …

ANDEAN ECOLOGY Page 1 ANDEAN ECOLOGY Page 2 Dellplain Latin American Studies No.
8 Studies in Spanish American Population History, edited by David J. Robinson No. 9 The …

Strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) analysis of human skeletal remains is an important method in
archaeology to examine past human mobility and landscape use. 87Sr/86Sr signatures of a …

The 1970s witnessed an outpouring of research on the Andean cultural tradition sufficient to
place Andean studies among the well-established regional subspecialties of anthropology …

The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role
in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Central …

Against the usual argument heard most frequently on the left, that there is no subject for a
radical politics together with its form of political mobilization, there is–but in the absence of a …

Where the study of peasants is concerned, there can be little doubt as to the identity of the
most fashionable and influential paradigm exercising intellectual hegemony in academic …

Peasant studies and the very category of peasants have diminished dramatically in
importance in the discourse of policy-makers and scholars of Latin America alike in the last …