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Changing Fortunes

by Karl S. Zimmerer

AgricultureAgriculture and stateBiological diversityConservation of natural resourcesEnvironmental conditionsHuman ecologyQuechua IndiansSocial aspects

"Brilliant study of the relationship between crop plant biodiversity, peasant behavior, and the larger society dispells some long held assertions about Andean farming. Based on fieldwork conducted during the 1980s in the highland portion of Paucartambo prov. (Cusco)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

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Book data: Open Library