ABSTRACT
'Traditional' Indians find it difficult to estimate their cash requirements and to determine with numerical precision which will be the most profitable and easiest way to meet them. Money calculations are unfamiliar to most Paez and by diversifying the methods of acquiring cash, long-range planning and complex calculations are avoided. The head of the family controls the land which is registered in his name, but he controls it for only a limited span of time and subject to certain conditions. The theoretical and effective limitations to the authority of the head of the household affect his managerial efficiency. Some Indians, as young men, had worked as wage labourers on big farms located near bigger towns or in the rich lowland valleys. The 'traditional' and 'progressive' Indians differ in the emphasis that each places on cash and subsistence activities, but both groups are involved in subsistence production.
