So That Men Are Free

McGraw-Hill Films (1963)

Reporter: Charles Kuralt

Presenter: Walter Cronkite

 

I’m Walter Cronkite. We take you to one of the remote areas of the world to the high Andes of Peru. CBS News correspondent, Charles Kuralt reporting…The seeds came here in the head of an anthropologist, a man usually the observer, not the creator of change.  Dr. Allan Holmberg of Cornell University…

Progress?  If you are enrolled as a student at Cornell University this Fall you can find out:

ANTHR 4710 – Cuisine, Production, and Biodiversity in Peru: From Local to Global  Fall.  2 credits.  B. J. Isbell.

This six week course focuses in part on the current efforts by Peruvian chefs to train Andean young people in the culinary arts and restaurant management at the Pachacutec cooking school as a form of economic development and a pathway to social justice.

The course also examines the economic and political assumptions of development efforts and how those assumptions and practices have changed over 50 years. The course will use the historic Cornell-Peru Project initiated in 1952 in the community of Vicos, Peru as a case study in Anthropology and Development. Vicos is located in the Callejón de Huaylas, Peru in the center of the UNESCO Huascarán World Heritage site and State Park. Peru is recognized as one of the twelve mega-diverse regions of the world where agriculture and domestication originated. Communities are active in preserving this diversity and students will be introduced to the complexity of the cultural and the environmental interactions in this mountain habitat in the fall semester. The community of Vicos is located at the base of Huascarán, the largest tropical glacier in the world, a major source of water. One of the issues to be examined is the rapid disappearance of Peru’s Glaciers due to global warming.

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