Agricultural experimentation fields in the Escuela-Ayllu de Warisata
Reflections on productivity, work and indigenous knowledge in the bolivian highlands (1931-1940)
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https://doi.org/10.15448/2178-3748.2020.2.37907Keywords:
Agriculture, Traditional knowledge, Environmental history, Indigenous educationAbstract
The Escuela-Ayllu de Warisata, located on the Bolivian altiplano between Lake Titicaca and the snowfall of Illampu, was an indigenous and rural education project that took place in Bolivia in the 1930s (1931-1940) and intended to integrate the concepts and knowledge of indigenous populations within national ideals. The relationship with the bio-physical environment appears in a remarkable way in the auto-biographical source of Elizardo Pérez, one of the founders of the project. Moreover, the school was inserted in a context of dispute for access to land, for autonomy and for the ways of organizing space that put the concepts of local indigenous communities in conflict with the interests of large landowners. In this article, we observe how the school sought to “revitalize” these indigenous knowledge and, also, a bio-cultural memory related to the highland environment using the productivity argument as a way to legitimize this project before the Bolivian society.
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