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Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform: (Latin America Otherwise)
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Enrique Mayer (Author)
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Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform reveals the human drama behind the radical agrarian reform that unfolded in Peru during the final three decades of the twentieth century. That process began in 1969, when the left-leaning military government implemented a drastic program of land expropriation. Seized lands were turned into worker-managed cooperatives. After those cooperatives began to falter and the country returned to civilian rule in the 1980s, members distributed the land among themselves. In 1995-96, as the agrarian reform process was winding down and neoliberal policies were undoing leftist reforms, the Peruvian anthropologist Enrique Mayer traveled throughout the country, interviewing people who had lived through the most tumultuous years of agrarian reform, recording their memories and their stories. While agrarian reform caused enormous upheaval, controversy, and disappointment, it did succeed in breaking up the unjust and oppressive hacienda system. Mayer contends that the demise of that system is as important as the liberation of slaves in the Americas.Mayer interviewed ex-landlords, land expropriators, politicians, government bureaucrats, intellectuals, peasant leaders, activists, ranchers, members of farming families, and others. Weaving their impassioned recollections with his own commentary, he offers a series of dramatic narratives, each one centered around a specific instance of land expropriation, collective enterprise, and disillusion. Although the reform began with high hopes, it was quickly complicated by difficulties including corruption, rural and urban unrest, fights over land, and delays in modernization. As he provides insight into how important historical events are remembered, Mayer re-evaluates Peru's military government (1969-79), its audacious agrarian reform program, and what that reform meant to Peruvians from all walks of life. 21 photographs, 3 tables, 2 maps
About the Author
Enrique Mayer is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. He is the author of The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the Andes and Land Use in the Andes: Ecology and Agriculture in the Mantaro Valley of Peru and a coeditor of Andean Kinship and Marriage.
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- Contributor: Enrique Mayer
- Imprint: Duke University Press
- ISBN13: 9780822344537
- Number of Pages: 328
- Packaged Weight: 594
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Release Date: 2009-10-30
- Series: Latin America Otherwise
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Enrique Mayer is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. He is the author of The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the Andes and Land Use in the Andes: Ecology and Agriculture in the Mantaro Valley of Peru and a coeditor of Andean Kinship and Marriage.
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