Article(print)#11986
Et antropologisk perspektiv pa kulturell endring og utvikling
In: Internasjonal politikk, Issue 4/5, p. 35-59
ISSN: 0020-577X
The author discusses cultural change and development through an analysis of a project for increasing production of guinea pigs in the highlands of Ecuador. He opposes two models of knowledge - the traditional and the modern - in order to find discontinuities and eventually contradictions. The empirical findings show that change is difficult to implement when production has a highly symbolic value that, in addition, relates with women's status and symbolic power. However, women's status changes as women gain independence and autonomy