Karsten Paerregaard: 2 books
Return to Sender
The Moral Economy of Peru’s Migrant Remittances
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Return to Sender is an anthropological account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for themselves and for their home communities. The book draws on first-hand ethnographic data from North and South America, Europe, and Japan to describe how Peruvians remit...
Vicos and Beyond
A Half Century of Applying Anthropology in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
In 1952, Professor Allan Holmberg arranged for Cornell University to lease the Hacienda Vicos, an agricultural estate in the central Peruvian highlands on which some 1800 Quechua-speaking highland peasants resided. Between 1952 and 1957 Holmberg, with colleagues and students, initiated a set of social,...