About:Cornell-Peru project

The Cornell-Peru project or the CPP was a development project conducted by anthropology students and professor from Cornell University from 1952 to 1966 at the Hacienda in Vicos Mountain in the Andes Highlands that housed members of the indigenous peasant class of Peru. It was one among several applied social science programs focused on agrarian and social reform at Cornell, and an early modernization experiment of the Cold War era. With the help of advisors from the Peruvian government, CPP provided the indigenas at the Hacienda, referred to as Viconsinos, with modernized healthcare, nutrition, education, language, farming techniques and agricultural methods that controversially eliminated their traditional culture.