Documento mecanografiado.

Contenido: Introduction -- The problem discussed -- The field situation -- Notes to Chapter I -- The setting -- Psysical setting of the Beni departament -- Human Setting of the Beni departament -- Moxos province -- Notes to Chapter II -- History -- Early European explotation and conquest -- Late pre-jesuit Moxos -- The jesuit period -- Form the expulsion of the jesuits to dependence 1767-1824 -- From the founding of the republic to the collapse of the rubber boom: 1825-1912 -- San Ignacvion from late nineteenth century to the eve of the Chaco war -- San Ingacio form the Chaco war to 1950 -- Notes to Chapter III -- San Ignacio: a biocultural community -- Physical and attitudinal manifestations of a dual community -- Mythology and the native view the physical environment -- Socio-cultural forms of a dual community -- Interaction and conflicts -- Notes to chapter IV -- Horticulture and ranching: Contrasting systems of land use and economic organization -- Horticulture: an indian occupation -- Ranching: a white occupation -- Conflict and change -- Notes to chapter V -- The quest for meat, skins, and pelts -- Hunting -- Fishing -- The quest for skins and pelts -- Conflict and Change -- Labor and exchange: the Shortage of purchasing power -- Labor -- Material exchange -- Conflict and change -- Agrarian reform, power and Stress -- Aftermanth of the revolution of 1952 -- The land-tenure structure -- Land tenure and agrarian reform in the review -- The locus of power -- Messianism -- Notes to chapter VIII -- Summary and conclusions -- The current situation of Ignacianos and its origins -- Community and change -- The future -- Bibliografhy.

This work is a study of the consequences for native peasants of the recent commercialization of beef cattle on the Llanos de Moxos in the Beni repartament of eastern Bolivia. The writer lived as participant observer for twenty months among the Ignacianos, a numerous native peasant group settled in and around San Ignacio de Moxos. Like most peasants of the region, Ignacianos are descendants of indians who were resettled in mission towns during colonial times, when for 100 years (1667-1767) the area that today corresponds roughly to the Beni departament was a Jesuit mission reserve. The Jesuits altered Amazonian social structures, introduced European tools and technologies, and grafted a folk catholicism onto native belief systems. The Jesuits also introduced cattle to the region and fomented a dependence on beef and dairy products. The traditional dependence on wild game and fish correspondingly waned...