Importance of courtyard culture for the community economy

Abstract

This article approaches economics from its cultural component, as part of the economic strategies of peasant families and communities, within the framework of local strategies, collective efforts and governmental programs to combat extreme poverty and the system that produces and perpetuates it. We reflect and link our reflections with the realities shared by a major part of the rural communities in the whole country, especially those in which the traditional peasant link to the land and its fruits continue to be strong, despite the constant advance of the urban logic and the tendency toward a service-oriented economy. This paper is based on ethnography as a method of approaching daily life, and anthropological theory as a scientific logic for comprehending the community and its development strategies. Our work is situated in the sustained research effort of the Department of Anthropology of the Faculty of Humanities and Juridical Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, Managua (UNAN-Managua).

Raíces - Revista Nicaragüense de Antropología. Año 1 No. 1/2017: 64-73