DEVELOPMENT IN THE CAPITAL: QUISPILLACCTA BETWEEN RESISTANCE AND
ASSIMILATION
Name: LEANDRO RUDAS MEDINA
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 13/08/2020
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| PAULO NAKATANI | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| PAULO NAKATANI | Advisor * |
| ROGÉRIO NAQUES FALEIROS | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: The Andean communal social structure in Peru has a period of long historical duration, preceding the Inca Civilization. This social structure, which we adopt to call the Ancestral Community, is based on communal property and work that consist of: temporary ownership of land and the organization of Ayni and Minka communal work. These bases and foundations of the communal entity, then, are the materialized part of the resistance that allow today's so-called 'peasant communities' to continue subsisting as a community, since they re-produce in their social structure the material and historical legacy of the Ancestral Community despite the conditions that capitalism holds for it. In contrast, the modern western era, which began in the colonization of the Americas, designed on particular and historical bases of production based on fixed and private land
ownership and labor relations supported on the commodification of the force
of job. The relationship between the two social structures, expressed in the
production of all the living conditions of the 'peasant communities', shows
the contrary and antagonistic conditions of the same, as well as the degree
of community disaggregation that defies communal existence, at the gradually
assimilate the living conditions of the communal population within the
framework of the commodification of the labor force. The latter, as a
fundamental requirement in the re-production of capital.
