Chilca, 1964–76

Abstract

It is difficult to establish the nature of changes and the exact pattern of events in Chilca in the later 1960s and in the 1970s. My data are crude and fragmentary, or depend on the memories of informants looking back over these years. I returned to the village for one-day visits in mid-1966, 1974 and 1976, these occasions providing only tantalising glimpses of the community in those years. Meanwhile, however, great changes were occurring in Peru, and from 1968 to about 1975 the Peruvian Revolution and its associated agrarian reform deeply affected the country, although not always in positive ways (see Chapters 10 and 13). At the same time, other forces had been unleashed that greatly affected the situation of the peasantry and its relationship to the modern world (see Chapter 9).