ABSTRACT
Reprinted from Symposium: Patterns of Land Utilization and Other Papers, edited by Viola E. Garfield. Proceedings of the 1961 Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, pp. 84-92. Copyright 1961, University of Washington Press. William P. Mangin is Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University; he received his B.A. there in 1948 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1954. He began his field work in the Peruvian Andes in 1951 and has returned there many times for research. In 1952-1953, he was field director of the Cornell-Vicos Project in Peru; in 1957-1959, he studied rural migrants to Lima, Peru, and was Visiting Professor at the University of San Marcos, Lima; in 1962-1964, he was Deputy Director of the Peace Corps in Peru. He has conducted a school for high-school dropouts and has been an unsuccessful candidate for political office on three separate occasions. He is currently completing a study of innovations in primary school education in Peru, Venezuela, and Cuba.
