In this article we will try to analyze the struggles and peasant movements that occurred on the farms of the Sociedad Ganadera del Centro, in the context of the changes that occurred in its productive structure, originated in the variations of the wool economy in the high-Andean grasslands of the Andes. Centrals.

During the 1980s American anthropology underwent two major transformations. The first involved a turn into history. The second, a turn towards texts. While the first of these led scholars a long way towards understanding the specificity, functioning and concrete reality of the economic, political, discursive and social processes studied by anthropology; the second traveled an exquisite path of self-reflection and disciplinary criticism. When the two paths crossed they produced a salutary historical re-examination of the discursive and institutional origins of anthropology in nineteenth-century colonial and evolutionary thought.