| Titre | Le latifundium traditionnel au Pérou jusqu'en 1914. Marginalisation et résistance | |
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| Auteur | Jean Piel | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 59, 1975 | |
| Page | 35-50 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Traditional Latifundium in Peru until 1914. Marginalisation and Resistance.
Mostly because they exclusively insist on the formal opposition between latifundium and minifundium, the studies produced in France dealing with the agrarian structures of Latin America conceal in fact the responsibilities of agrarian capitalism in the blockage of this dualistic structure of the land. What has happened to the traditional or archaic Peruvian latifundia since the end of the nineteenth century, in this respect is very significant. Reduced to a marginal status, through the technical and financial rise of the large capitalistic land estates, they remain however necessary to these estates as land, water and labour reserves ; and still more, as intermediate land institutions able to control the inland masses of the Andean Indian and half-breed peasantry. Between the nineteenth and twentieth century, in order to resist competition from modern capitalistic sector, the traditional Peruvian latifundia reacted by aggravating the exploitation and pauperisation of Indian communities. Such a reaction reflects, in its own way, the laws of unequal economic growth. The true responsibility of the pre-capitalistic development of the latifundia, which takes place in the Peruvian Andes at the beginning of the nineteenth century, can be found in the pressure brought upon the traditional latifundia by agrarian capitalism itself. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1975_num_59_1_2052 |
