9780934223898

Resiliency in hostile environments; a comunidad agricola in Chile's Norte Chico.

Alexander, William L.

Lehigh University Press

2008

259 pages

$55.00

Hardcover

HD1289

Although the condition of

the land in the Coquimbo region is cyclical it is also unpredictable, and the communities farming it have learned to survive not by responding as individuals but as a community. In addition, the people of the Coquimbo must band together to cope with scarce resources and the ever-growing presence of copper mining nearby. Alexander (anthropology, U. of North Carolina Wilmington) details the systems the communidades agricolas have developed to share scarce land and resources, as well as to survive harsh socioeconomic, political and economic conditions. He follows one the families as they deal with harsh natural and societal realities, and along the way challenges conventional thinking about how people who know they are marginalized survive. Distributed by Associated University Presses.

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