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Article: Peasants on plantations: subaltern strategies of labor and resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru.(Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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PELOSO, VINCENT C. Peasants on plantations: subaltern strategies of labor and resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru. xxii, 251 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr. Durham, NC, London: Duke Univ. Press, 1999. [pound]34.00 (cloth), [pound]1.95 (paper)
Writing with vigour and clarity, Vincent Peloso describes peasant resistance and adaptation on a southern Peruvian hacienda in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. According to Peloso, who is a historian, the landowners were part of a hegemonic order; tenants resisted the hacienda's changing demands on moral grounds yet within the 'rules of hegemony'. Out of this agrarian scene involving the interaction ...