This book explores why and how the Aymara Indians of the Lake Titicaca Basin in Peru have entered the money economy and the effects of this rapid change on social structure, religion, kinship, and world view.
In this book, the author suggests several principles that might apply to a general model of peasant transition on the basis of comparison of the Aymara with peasant groups in other parts of the world. He shows why and how the Peruvian Aymara have entered the money economy.