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Nils Jacobsen
Mirages of Transition
The Peruvian Altiplano, 1780-1930
$36.95, £26.50 paperback
978-0-520-08291-5
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October 1993, Available worldwide
Categories: History; Anthropology; Latin American History; Latin American Studies
October 1993, Available worldwide
Categories: History; Anthropology; Latin American History; Latin American Studies
"Both challenges and compliments previous historical studies of the transition to capitalism in the Andean highlands. . . . Also welcome is Jacobsen's revisionist interpretation of the volatile period of landlord offensives and peasant resistance between and 1895 and 1930 that gave rise to indigenísmo in southern Peru."—Social and Behavioral Sciences
"One of the finest works on Latin America to come along in a decade. . . . Jacobsen's methods . . . have relevance for many other areas of rural Latin America. . . [and] will set the standard for some time to come."—Erick D. Langer, Carnegie-Mellon University
This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, the vast high-altitude plains surrounding Lake Titicaca, combines economic and social analysis with cultural and institutional history. Nils Jacobsen challenges the prevailing view that the rural Andes underwent a successful transition to capitalism between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He argues that although the political, economic, and administrative structures of colonialism were gradually dismantled by the region's advancing market economy, colonial modes of constructing power and social identity have lingered on even to this day.
The result of painstaking research in remote rural archives, some of them now made inaccessible by the Shining Path, Mirages of Transition will become the definitive work on the Peruvian highlands.
The result of painstaking research in remote rural archives, some of them now made inaccessible by the Shining Path, Mirages of Transition will become the definitive work on the Peruvian highlands.