Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1966
Description
"The Department of Anthropology of Cornell University undertook late in 1962 to conduct a program of research on Peace Corps program impact in the Peruvian Andes. A contract between the Peace Corps and Cornell University provided funds to finance this research project (Contract PC—(W)—155). The present report constitutes one final report and summary of research findings under this contract. References to previously published reports will be found in the bibliography at the end of this report.
"The background of the Cornell anthropology department in Peru extends back in time to 1948 when Professor Allan R. Holmberg joined the Cornell faculty. At that time, a comparative study of technological change had been launched by the Cornell University Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Anthropology faculty members headed long-term research projects in India, Thailand, Canada, and the Southwestern United States as well as in Peru. Peruvian students under Holmberg direction began making baseline studies of two different types of Andean populations in 1949. One of these was a traditional Andean manor, 1/ and the other a Mestizo trading town 2/ six kilometers distant. In 1951, the company leasing the manor property, Vicos with its bound-to-the-land Indian serfs offered Cornell University a five-year sublease. Holmberg took up the offer, and with Dr. Carlos Monge Medrano, Director of the Peruvian Indian Institute, formed the cooperative Cornell Peru Project. 3/ This Cornell University-Peruvian government organization started a five-year experiment in converting the Vicos Indian manor population into land-owning citizens supporting themselves off their own land by means of improved agricultural and social technology. 4/
"By the expiration of the five year sublease in 1956, the Cornell Peru Project had wrought great changes in the Vicos Indians, and their relationships to the neighboring nonIndian population. Fundamental land tenure reform took longer for these Indians who had learned a new and modern agricultural technology, begun sending their children to school, augmented their income from their existing land base, and learned to make local decisions through directly-elected delegates to a community council. 5/ Having the security of owning title to their lands had to wait until 1962. A series of moves begun in 1956, accelerated in 1961, came to fruition in direct purchase of the Vicos lands by their Indian cultivators in 1962." -- [p.1]
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Recommended Citation
Dobyns, Henry F., "Peace Corps Program Impact in the Peruvian Andes: Final Report" (1966). Other Documents. 34.
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