Kinship and Seasonal Migration Among the Aymara of Southern Peru: Human Adaptation to Energy Scarcity

by Jane Collins

Abstract:

The people of the southern Peruvian highlands have adapted to a condition of energy scarcity through seasonal migration to lowland areas.

In the district of Sarata (a fictitious name for a real district on the northeastern shore of Lake Titicaca) people spend three to seven months of every year growing coffee in the Tambopata Valley of the eastern Andes.

This migratory pattern, which is hundreds of years old, provides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0530007096
• ISBN13: 9780530007090
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Dissertation Discovery Company
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 2.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"