The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the Andes
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Household in Perspective -- House, Field, and Money -- The Household in the Andes -- The Household in the Community -- 2 Redistribution and Trade in Inca Society -- The Ethnic Group -- Economic Organization of the Inca State -- Evidence for Trade -- Trade in Luxuries -- Marketplaces in Cities and Towns -- Interecological Trade -- The Growth of Trading in Colonial Times -- Postscript -- 3 A Tribute to the Household: Domestic Economy and the Encomienda in Colonial Peru -- Saturday, February 14, 1562 -- The Testimony -- Household Types -- The Burden of Tribute -- Conclusions -- Postscript -- 4 The Rules of the Game in Andean Reciprocity -- How Reciprocity Works -- Forms of Andean Reciprocity -- Plowing and Harvesting -- Exploitation with Reciprocity -- Ceremonial Exchanges -- Reciprocity, Redistribution and Symbolic Capital -- Taxation -- Counting and Sharing -- The Limits of Reciprocity -- Postscript -- 5 Aspects of Barter -- Impurities -- Harvest Failure -- Strategies Intended to Overcome the Crisis -- Barter: A Generalized Exchange System -- Forms of Barter -- Why Barter? -- Postscript -- 6 Coca as Commodity: Local Use and Global Abuse -- Coca's Economic Functions -- Social Roles of Coca -- Access to Coca and Ethnic Domination -- Coca Substitution -- The New Context in the Late 1990s -- Aggressive Marketing -- Respect for Coca -- Undue Appropriation -- Postscript -- 7 Alguito Para Ganar ("A Little Something To Earn"): Profits and Losses in Peasant Economies (with Manuel Glave) -- Tulumayo and Paucartambo Valleys -- Real Losses (Total Balances) -- Monetary Balances and the Illusion of Profits -- Subsistence Production Costs Money -- Ethnography of Accounting -- The Question of Subsidies -- Postscript
