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SUMMARY:Salvador Allende Memorial Lecture - The Chilean road to capitalism
 : the role of agrarian reform and peasant revolt before the coup  - José 
 Bengoa\,  Rector and Professor of Anthropology Universidad Academia de Hum
 anismo Cristiano Santiago de Chile
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CONTACT:Odette Rogers
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nThis lecture explains the triumph of capitalism in 
 Chile from a historical perspective that emphasises the system of agrarian
  domination and its destruction by the Agrarian Reform and the peasant rev
 olts of the period that occurred between 1967 and 1973. The Agrarian Refor
 m was the most important process of social change in twentieth century Chi
 le. The system of rural servitude\, known as ‘inquilinaje’\, was for c
 enturies the model of domination\, subordination and integration which und
 erlay the hierarchies of class\, gender\, ethnicity and race\, as well as 
 the morality of the whole society. Between 1967 and 1973 the hacienda syst
 em that had existed in the country since the Spanish Colony was destroyed.
  The peasant revolt was eventually brutally crushed\, but it brought about
  the end of the monopoly of the oligarchy over landed property and the dis
 solution and transformation of the former servile classes into a labour fo
 rce of temporary workers. On this foundation the new successful agrarian e
 xport capitalism was built\, a free market in land and a mass of nearly ha
 lf a million mainly women workers and seasonal workers who follow the harv
 est seasons up and down the country.\n\nBio:\nJosé Bengoa is one of Chile
 ’s leading intellectuals. He is the Rector of the Universidad Academia d
 e Humanismo Cristiano and Professor in its School of Anthropology. He has 
 held the Pablo Neruda Professorship at the Sorbonne\, the Andrés Bello Pr
 ofessorship at the University of Leiden\, as well as Visiting Professorshi
 ps in Salamanca\, at Indiana University (Bloomington) and at the Universid
 ad Complutense de Madrid. For two decades he was a member of the United Na
 tions Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of
  Minorities. He was the President of the Comisión Especial de Pueblos Ind
 ígenas which drew up the Ley Indígena of 1993. \n\n
LOCATION:SG1\, Ground Floor\, Alison Richard Building\, West Road
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