Fotocopia.

Un ejemplar empastado y otro anillado.

Tesis de Doctorado (Philosophy) -- Johns Hopkings University, 1985.

Contenido: Introduction -- Land, Labor, and Animals -- Comunity, Land and labor in the Nineteenth Century -- The Wool export Market and Regional development -- Regional Conflict over land and Labor -- Pastoral Production and exchange -- The Herders ' Response -- References -- Curriculum Vitae.

This dissertation examines relations among alpaca herding communities, the wool market, and the state in the Ulla Ulla area of Bolivia. The headers' relation to the market and the state is viewed as an active and creative resistance to demands on their means of production. The principal question the dissertation addresses is why the headers in free communities have been more successful in defending their control over productive resources than have their counterparts in agricultural communities of the Andes. A historical analysis of the pastoralists' integration into the market since the nineteenth century demonstrates that the herders have not acted "traditionally", but have vigorously defended values households, albeit not necessarily equitably. Despite the headers' sale of wool for almost a century, their relations of production have not been radically transformed by the market. They have also not retreated from active participation in many forms of market transactions. Indeed, in many instances, they have sougth out greater participation in the market by diversifying their production and exchange relations. The economic diversification in the headers' economic relations is not exclusively a consequence of their integration into the market; diversification of productive activities has a long history in Andean peasant communities. The great flexibility in social relations within the herding communities is in part responsible for the herders' ability to engage in a wide range of market relations without losing control over their means of production. Additionally, this dissertation explores the hypothesis that the loose structure of the wool export market was defined to some extent by the herders' response to it. This contrasts with standard arguments which contend that the market was structured so as to put the risk of unstable prices on the producers. By examining the state and its role in regional development, we conclude that herder resistance set constraints on both government and market operation in the Ulla Ulla area. This process continues today.

Ingles.