Peasants In Transition

"The book is an important demonstration of the viability of

General Systems Theory for anthropology. Among the surprising

findings directly deriving from this approach is that the Aymara

transition is a response not to inputs from the industrial

sector, but to instabilities within the traditional Aymara economic

system itself. The Systems Theory principle of the adaptive

value of deviance is the basis for an in-depth analysis of

the emergence of the Seventh-Day Adventists as a power-elite

in many Aymara communities."