Etnografía de los proyectos de crianza de camélidos en el cantón Riobamba.

Alpacas, vicuñas and llamas have been introduced due to development comunitary projects in the wildlife reserve “Reserva de Producción Faunística Chimborazo (RPFCH, Ecuador). The research was specifically conducted in the communities of Pulinguí San Pablo, Chorrera Mirador, Palacio Real and Anguiñay (Chimborazo). The objective of ethnography is to evaluate the success of such projects, show how the modern myth of development operates, and the economic, symbolic, social, and cultural implications that the communities have. To accomplish this, I have used the ethnographic method, personally collecting the data and analyzing and using it to guide the reasoning of this work. The results show how reintroduction projects of alpacas and vicunas, unlike that of llamas, have failed because the socio-cultural aspects of ancient peoples inhabiting these lands have not been considered. These projects displaced cattle raising, introduced with the conquest, in exchange of a false alternative economy that should have been born from raising camellids. With the media as an accomplice, both vicunas and alpacas are now an icon of tourism in the RPFCH, benefiting institutions and public image instead of indigenous and local peasant farmers. The most striking result is that the myth of development justifies the trampling of the Andean cultures and hides the failure of the projects.

• Autor principal: Barili, Alessio (author)
• Format: bachelorThesis
• Idioma: spa
• Publicat: 2017
• Matèries: ANTROPOLOGÍA APLICADA; ETNOLOGÍA; CAMÉLIDOS; DESARROLLO DE LA COMUNIDAD
• Accés en línia: http://dspace.ups.edu.ec/handle/123456789/13536