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

by Lynn Swartley

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9781317794202
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/24/2018
Series:	Indigenous Peoples and Politics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Lynn Swartley

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Ethnic Groups and the State: From Tiwanaku to National Revolution in the Lake Titicaca Basin 3. Agrarian Policies, Indigenous Social Movements and Sustainable Development: The Contexts for Implementing a Bolivian Agricultural Developmental Project 4. 'Inventing Tradition' and Development: The Representation of Raised Field Agriculture 5. 'Traditional Agricultural Practices': Contrasting Representations of Raised Fields with Production Factors at the Local Level 6. The 'Myth of the Idle Peasant' Revisited: Access to Labor for Agriculture 7. Conclusion: Inventing Indigenous Knowledge and the Maintenance of Class and Ethnic Boundaries