Senior Theses
Publication Date
5-29-2013
Document Type
Thesis (Open Access)
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology
Department
Sociology and Anthropology
Faculty Advisor(s)
Tom Love
Subject Categories
Anthropology
Abstract
In 1968 the Peruvian governement was overtaken by a military coup, ushering in the agrarian reform-a system of land distribution that would irrevocably change the country. Concepción, a member of the land-owning elite, lived in a time and place at the very heart of the agrarian reform. As both a woman and acting manager for her family's haciendas during the 1950s and 1960s, she provides an excellent case study of how Peru's national agrarian reform policies changed the lives of land-owners in the highlands of Ayacucho. I will use her life to do an ethnography of the particular to examine the central need for region-level analysis when studying the agrarian reform. Examination of class structure, racial differences, gender, and landownership show that rather than being truly revolutionary, the agrarian reform was just the final straw for a system already in steep deterioration.
Recommended Citation
Fajardo, Susana, "Losing the Hacienda: the Agrarian Reform's Effect on Landowners in the Peruvian Andes" (2013). Senior Theses. 8.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/soanstud_theses/8
