Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Scope and method
- 3 The economic unit and economic organization
- 4 Production and exchange
- 5 The level and structure of peasant income
- 6 The economic behavior of the peasant family
- 7 Stagnation in the peasant economy and the role of demand
- 8 Economic crisis and the peasant economy, 1975–1980
- 9 Conclusions: reality, theory and policy
- Appendixes
- I The sample
- II Methodological notes concerning the calculation of peasant income
- III Andean food plants
- IV Methodology used in the calculation of Table 7.1
- Notes
- Bibliograph
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
III - Andean food plants
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Scope and method
- 3 The economic unit and economic organization
- 4 Production and exchange
- 5 The level and structure of peasant income
- 6 The economic behavior of the peasant family
- 7 Stagnation in the peasant economy and the role of demand
- 8 Economic crisis and the peasant economy, 1975–1980
- 9 Conclusions: reality, theory and policy
- Appendixes
- I The sample
- II Methodological notes concerning the calculation of peasant income
- III Andean food plants
- IV Methodology used in the calculation of Table 7.1
- Notes
- Bibliograph
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Summary
Potatoes: Solanum spp., the majority of native potatoes grown in Peru; Solanum tuberosum subspecies indigena.
Oca: Oxalis tuberosa.
Olluco: Ullucus tuberosus.
Mashua: Tropaeolum tuberosum.
Achira: Canna edulis.
Quinua: Chenopodium quinoa.
Cañihua: Chenopodium pallidicaule.
Achita: achis = quihuicha. Amaranthus caudatus.
Maize: Zea mays.
Tarhui: Lupinus mutabilis.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1984