The dynamics of Indian peasant society and migration to coastal plantations in central Peru

The Show Must Go On

“…Indeed, as several studies of rural change in Peru point out, many communities have responded to the demand for labor in the mines in the Andes and on the plantations on the coast in a way that has not only given them access to the cash economy but also enabled them to reproduce themselves socially and culturally in their places of origin (Favre, 1977;Mallon, 1983: 248-267;Smith, 1989: 96-111). Rather than producing rapid proletarization and alienation, then, labor migration has allowed rural indigenous communities in Peru and the rest of Latin America to survive.…”

Hybridity and Change: Gamonales, Montoneros and Young Politicos in South‐Central Peru

“…As mercury production declined during the end of the eighteenth century, the regional economy disintegrated and, in combination with the anti-kuraka (Lead of indigenous noble lineage) legislation following the Túpac Amaru insurrection, led to a change in the composition of the elite in the old reducciones . Thus by the early nineteenth century, a local, creole elite had taken over in the towns of Moya and Vilca where an indigenous nobility had previously ruled ( Favre, 1977 ).…”

Mexican Peonage: What Was It and Why Was It?

“…>49 Turner may well have embellished his story. 71 Before proceeding to genuinely servile forms, we should pause to consider why the Soconusco planters chose to coax rather than to coerce. But more 'objective' observers, like the British journalist Henry Baerlein, who spent 'many weeks' in Yucatan (certainly long enough to become a favourite of the local cartoonists) substantially corroborated his version.…”