[Enrique Mayer and César Fonseca Martel research on sistemas agrarios en la cuenca del Rió Cañete, Peru], 1979.

1 flat map folder.

Donated by Enrique Mayer to Yale University Library, Map Department.

Enrique Mayer is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Yale Univeristy. Professor Mayer specializes in Andean agricultural systems and Latin American peasantries. His work has shown that regions characterized by diversity (such as mountainous environments, small islands, and “marginal” lands), not suitable for agribusiness, are exploited by peasants in strikingly similar ways. Worldwide, peasant forms of production predominate and persist in these environments. These agricultural systems are important to those concerned about world genetic resources, or about environmental conservation, and to scholars who seek an understanding of ancient and yet also very contemporary Non Western rural life-ways. He is currently collecting “ugly” stories about the agrarian reform in Peru (1969), finding that most people, although they benefited from it, nonetheless feel victimized and regard the reform as a failure. He is also the author of The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the Andes (2001).

A collection of maps from the research on sistemas agrarios en la cuenca del Rió Cañete, Peru by Enrique Mayer and César Fonseca Martel. The collection includes six transparent mylar overlays, nine maps (some with handcolored), and on aerial photograph.

Spanish

April 11, 2019

Maps.