'To work is to transform the land': agricultural labour, personhood and landscape in an Andean ayllu

CM Sheild Johansson - 2013 - etheses.lse.ac.uk
This thesis analyses the central role of agricultural labour in the construction of personhood,
landscape and work in an Andean ayllu. It is an ethnographic study based on fieldwork in a
small subsistence farming village in the highlands of Bolivia. In employing a practice‐led
approach and emphasising everyday labour, ambiguity and the realities of history and
political power play, rather than the ayllu's 'core characteristics' of complementarity and
communality, the thesis moves away from the structuralist approaches which have …

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CMS Johansson, C Miranda - 2013 - academia.edu
This thesis analyses the central role of agricultural labour in the construction of personhood,
landscape and work in an Andean ayllu. It is an ethnographic study based on fieldwork in a
small subsistence farming village in the highlands of Bolivia. In employing a practice‐led
approach and emphasising everyday labour, ambiguity and the realities of history and
political power play, rather than the ayllu's 'core characteristics' of complementarity and
communality, the thesis moves away from the structuralist approaches which have …
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