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SUMMARY:Guiseppe Feola Between Change and Continuity: Peasant Institutions
  and Cultural Models in the Colombian Andes - Guiseppe Feola
DTSTART:20160126T130000Z
DTEND:20160126T140000Z
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CONTACT:Ritika Kapur
DESCRIPTION:In the Colombian Andes\, peasants have co-evolved with their e
 nvironment for centuries\, but it is uncertain whether traditional informa
 l institutions and cultural models are adapting to current and possibly un
 precedented economic and climatic disturbances. This study investigated in
 stitutional adaptation and the social mechanisms of institutional change o
 r continuity in a peasant community in the Eastern Andean Cordillera. The 
 research was informed by evolutionary theories of institutional change and
  based on a qualitative approach that included data collected through a fo
 cus group\, oral histories\, key informant interviews and observations. Th
 is study suggests that reciprocal work exchanges\, festivities and gender-
 based divisions of roles have been disused or changed due to economic pres
 sures\, but that most informal institutions have persisted due to selectiv
 e outmigration\, conformist intergenerational transmission\, and practices
  of everyday resistance. The natural model of vital energy and the traditi
 onal peasant ethos represents a 'social attractor' that has influenced ins
 titutional continuity. This study highlights tensions between resilience\,
  cultural diversity\, and transformation that are important in many other 
 marginal rural locations in the Andes
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