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Introduction -- A deep history of the Humboldt Current ecosystem -- The new industrial ecology of animal farming in the Atlantic and Pacific worlds, 1840-1930 -- Protein from the sea : the "nutrition problem" and the industrialization of fishing in Chile and Peru -- The golden anchoveta : the making of the world's largest single-species fishery in Chimbote, Peru -- States of uncertainty : science, policy, and the bio-economics of Peru's 1972 fishmeal collapse -- The translocal history of industrial fisheries in Iquique and Talcahuano, Chile -- Conclusion -- Appendix A : glossary of marine species -- Appendix B :diagram of Humboldt Current trophic web -- Appendix C : major current systems of Eastern and Central Pacific Ocean -- Appendix D : world fisheries management zones -- Appendix E : world fisheries landings and ENSO events, 1950-2014.
People of Asian descent have lived for centuries in North and South America, where they have been actively involved in the creation of multicultural, multiethnic societies. This groundbreaking anthology explores their experiences among ethnic and cultural groups in a unique collection of works by and about Asian Americans. Utilizing a rich blend of analytical, autobiographical, biographical, and narrative essays, oral histories, fiction, photography, and artwork, the anthology focuses especially on the interactions of Asians with others outside the dominant culture. Contributors range from established scholars, writers and artists to little-known voices heard here for the first time. Scholar...
In The Politics of Religion and the Rise of Social Catholicism in Peru (1884-1935) Ricardo Cubas Ramacciotti provides a lucid synthesis of the Catholic Church’s responses to the secularisation of the State and society whilst offering a fresh appraisal of the emergence of Social Catholicism and its contribution to social thought and development of civil society in post-independence Peru. Making use of diverse historical sources, Cubas provides a comprehensive view of a reformist yet anti-revolutionary trend within the Peruvian Church that, decades before the emergence of Liberation Theology and under divergent intellectual paradigms, developed an active agenda that addressed the new social problems of the country, including those of urban workers, and of indigenous populations.
Andean communities occupy a special place in the history of anthropology, having given shape to fundamental theories of kinship, peasant economics, Indigenous medical systems, ritual life and others. Yet children have been shortchanged in research and theory building. Care and Agency, based on detailed ethnographies of six towns in the province of Yauyos, restores children to a central research position. Contemporary children’s studies emphasize children’s agency and autonomy, and these take surprising forms under the conditions of the rural Andes. At the same time, the book incorporates and extends current discussions of caregiving and its organization in human societies. Children in th...
La Maestría en Relaciones Laborales de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) rinde homenaje a su fundador con este libro que tienes entre tus manos. Nuestro deseo fue lograr su publicación con su presencia, pero, lamentablemente, Denis nos dejó el pasado 19 de setiembre de 2022, antes de materializarlo. Denis Sulmont fue el primer director de nuestra maestría a fines de los noventa, luego de una vasta trayectoria académica en nuestra universidad, impulsó la conformación de una maestría que estudiase las relaciones laborales desde la multiplicidad académica (Sociología, Derecho, Economía, Gestión y Psicología) dando forma a una interdisciplinaridad como herramienta metodológica y conceptual de estudio. En realidad, la maestría refleja su forma de abordar el análisis de las relaciones laborales. Este Libro homenaje es elaborado en base al propio pensamiento de Denis, es decir, seleccionando alguno de los temas desarrollado por él, las autoras y los autores escriben sus artículos desde una interpretación actualizada, manteniendo vivo y vigente su pensamiento.
Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin America are so recognizable in their enforcement of domination, their generation and maintenance of social exclusion, and their propulsion of historical change, that historians have tended to take them for granted, leaving unexamined important questions regarding their form and meaning. The essays in...
A contemporary classic in Peru, where it was first published in 1986, this book explores changes in the political identity and economic strategies of the Peruvian working class in the 1970s and 1980s. Jorge Parodi uses a case study of Metal Empresa, a large factory in Lima, to trace the surge and decline of the labor movement in Peru--and in Latin America more generally--through the successes and frustrations of the members of a once-powerful union as they coped with the nation's deteriorating economic situation. By the early 1970s, Metal Empresa was the site of one of the most radical and aggressive unions in Peruvian industry. But as the decade drew to a close, political and economic crises soured the environment for trade unionism and rendered unions less able to produce palpable benefits for their members. Through in-depth, often poignant interviews, including an extensive oral history of one of the workers, Jesus Zuniga, Parodi shows how workers desperate to support themselves and their families were increasingly forced to seek opportunities outside the industrial sector. In the process, he shows, they began to question their very identities as workers.
Monograph on a field study of migrant workers and industrial development trends in Peru - examines the history of mining multinational enterprises since 1900, the role of miners' and metalworkers' trade unions, extent of trade unionism, industrial policy, etc., and includes a social and cultural anthropology investigation of rural migration from two Andean villages, with a view to living conditions, attitudes and proletarianisation. Bibliography pp. 214 to 220, diagrams, glossary, graphs and map.
Originally published in 1979, this book examines differing forms of international, interracial working- class action and the relationship between workers’ struggles in the periphery and those in advanced capitalist countries. It analyses the nature of class alliances forged in the countryside and the urban sprawls of the developing world among workers, students and the unemployed. The volume draws on theoretical debates and detailed empirical studies dealing with a wide range of countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean. Each of the sections is preceded by a linking editorial comment and the editors also provide an introductory overview. Reviews of the original edition of ...