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

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ISBN: 9780415935647 | 0415935644
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/25/2002

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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.

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
Representing Raised Fields as Indigenous Knowledge	p. 10
The Community of Wankollo	p. 15
Outline of Chapters	p. 21
Ethnic Groups and the State: From Tiwanaku to National Revolution in the Lake Titicaca Basin	p. 25
The Physical Setting	p. 29
The Tiwanaku State and Political Economy	p. 30
The Question of Tiwanaku Ethnic Origins	p. 33
The Aymara Kingdoms	p. 34
The Inca Conquest	p. 36
The Spanish Conquest	p. 37
Toledo Reforms and Colonial Administration	p. 39
Late Colonial Society and "The Age of Andean Insurrection"	p. 42
The 19[superscript th] Century Republic of Bolivia	p. 45
The Early 20[superscript th] Century and National Revolution	p. 47
The Contexts of Agricultural Development: Agrarian Policies, Indigenous Social Movements, and Sustainable Development	p. 51
The Agrarian Reform in Wankollo and the Lake Titicaca Basin	p. 53
Political and Economic Currents after Agrarian Reform	p. 57
Katarismo and Indigenous Politics in La Paz	p. 61
Sustainable Development and International Development Policies	p. 65
Custom Designing Development: An Altiplano Development Project in Bolivia	p. 76
"Inventing Tradition" and Development: The Representation of Raised Field Agriculture	p. 79
Essentialism, Representation, and Invented Traditions	p. 81
Archaeology and Experiments with Raised Field Agriculture	p. 84
The Raised Field Rehabilitation Project in Bolivia	p. 86
Representations of Tiwanaku and the Lake Titicaca Basin in Archaeology	p. 90
Representations of Raised Fields and Indigenous Peoples in Development	p. 96
Traditional Agricultural Practices: Contrasting Representations of Raised Fields with Production Factors at the Local Level	p. 107
Agricultural Production in Wankollo	p. 109
The Raised Field Rehabilitation Project in Wankollo	p. 112
Solar Heat Retention and Frost Protection	p. 113
Nutrient Regeneration and "Ecological Sustainability"	p. 117
Raised Fields as "Appropriate Technology"	p. 121
Access to Land for Raised Fields	p. 125
The "Myth of the Idle Peasant" Revisited: Access to Labor for Agriculture	p. 133
Organizing Agricultural Labor	p. 136
Labor Availability in Wankollo	p. 141
Labor Requirements for Raised Fields and Regular Potato Fields	p. 144
Conclusion: Inventing Indigenous Knowledge and the Maintenance of Class and Ethnic Boundaries	p. 155
App. 1: Methodology	p. 163
App. 2: Figures	p. 169
Bibliography	p. 185
Index	p. 207
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Inventing Indigenous Knowledge: Archaeology, Rural Development and the Raised Field Rehabilitation Project in Bolivia

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