Household and Class Relations

Peasants and Landlords in Northern Peru

Carmen Diana Deere

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780520359994
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520313439
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Household and Class Relations offers an adept and multifaceted look at modern peasant family relation- ships. With the perspectives of an anthropologist and sociologist as well as those of an economist, Deere brings a fresh approach to the classic question: how do households continue to exist as units of production and reproduction in the face of their growing proletarianization and impoverishment? She draws upon rich life histories as well as archival and survey research to provide a regional history of the northern Peruvian highland province of Cajamarca since the turn of the century. Beginning with an examination of the hacienda system in the first four decades of this century, Household and Class Relations goes on to probe the development of agrarian capitalism in the postwar period and the peasant economy of the 1970s. With this background firmly in place, Household and Class Relations then distinguishes itself through attention to the interaction between class and gender. Deere argues that the subordination of women has had high costs for the well-being of rural households, exacerbating peasant poverty. Further, she shows how peasant households have adopted a strategy of participating in multiple income generating activities in order to survive. Breaking new ground, her study examines how gender relations interact with class relations to explain social differentiation among peasants. This is an exciting and stimulating study that will appeal to Latin Americanists, scholars of women's studies, and economists. Wide-ranging and incisive, it will garner attention from many quarters. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS 1
• LIST OF TABLES AND MAPS
• PREFACE
• Introduction
• PART ONE The Cajamarcan Haciendas and the Peasantry, 1900—1940
• ONE The Political Economy of the First Four Decades: The Dominance of the Hacienda System
• TWO Class Relations on the Cajamarcan Haciendas
• THREE The Peasant Household on the Hacienda
• FOUR The Peasant Household in the Independent Community
• PART TWO The Process of Capitalist Transition, 1940-1980
• FIVE The Development of the Market in Milk, Land, and Labor
• SIX The Development of Agrarian Capitalism: Junker and Farmer Paths
• SEVEN The Peasant Household in the Transition
• EIGHT Structural Changes in the Provincial Economy
• NINE The Agrarian Reform in Cajamarca: State Intervention, Capital, Labor, and the Peasantry
• PART THREE The Class Analytics of Peasant Hous e hold Reproduction and Differentiation
• TEN The Generation of Household Income and Peasant Household Reproduction
• ELEVEN The Family Life Cycle and Generational Reproduction
• TWELVE Epilogue: The Province in the 1980s
• APPENDIX I: THE 1876 AND 1940 PERUVIAN CENSUSES
• APPENDIX II: ESTIMATING PEASANT HOUSEHOLD INCOME ON THE HACIENDA COMBAYO
• APPENDIX III: THE 1973 CAJAMARCA INCOME SURVEY
• APPENDIX IV: THE 1976 PEASANT FAMILY SURVEY
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX