Alguito para ganar (a little something to earn): Profits and losses in peasant economies

American Ethnologist

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 344-369

  Mayer, Enrique ^a   Glave, Manuel ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

Andes; Cash and subsistence crops; Genetic erosion; Market integration; Peasants; Peru; Profitability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033130414     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.1999.26.2.344     Document Type: Article

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