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Title Vicos and beyond : a half century of applying anthropology in Peru / edited by Tom Greaves, Ralph Bolton, and Florencia Zapata
Published Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, c2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 359 p.)
Contents Part I: Remembering the Vicos Project -- Part II: Evaluating the Vicos Project -- Part III: Alternatives to the Vicos Project -- Part IV: Vicos today
Summary From 1952 to 1962, anthropologists funded by Cornell University sought to apply anthropological knowledge to improving life in Vicos, a village of about 1,800 people in the Peruvian Andes. This collection evaluates the methods and results of the famous, and even infamous, Vicos Project
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cornell Peru Project -- History
Cornell Peru Project
Indians of South America -- Land tenure -- Peru -- Vicos
Indians of South America -- Peru -- Vicos -- Social conditions
Indians of South America -- Peru -- Vicos -- Economic conditions
Applied anthropology -- Peru -- Vicos
Agriculture, Cooperative -- Peru -- Vicos
HISTORY.
Agriculture, Cooperative
Applied anthropology
Economic history
Indians of South America -- Economic conditions
Indians of South America -- Land tenure
Indians of South America -- Social conditions
Social conditions
Vicos (Peru) -- Social conditions
Vicos (Peru) -- Economic conditions
Peru -- Vicos
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Greaves, Thomas C
Bolton, Ralph, 1939-
Zapata, Florencia
LC no. 2021678972
ISBN 9780759119765
9786612922091
6612922095
0759119767