FROM DEVIL PACTS TO DRUG DEALS - COMMERCE, UNNATURAL ACCUMULATION, AND MORAL COMMUNITY IN MODERN PERU

''Resistance to the marker'' has been a trope commonly employed by ant hropologists to explain local response to market expansion. Indeed, an extensive literature has documented the myriad forms of material and cultural resistance to the market undertaken by those who perceive it as a dangerous intrusion inr their fives. in this article I argue that the use of this trope has contributed to the reproduction oi a series of familiar but problematic dualisms in anthropology: modern/traditio nal, present/past, subject/object. Focusing on Chachapoyas-a region in the northern Peruvian Andes-I explore a series oi changing social and political conditions, contingent in time and through space, that have encouraged radically different reactions to the realm oi the market. In the 1930s local discourse concerning increasing market integration presented the marker in terms verging on the millenarian, as having th e potential ro usher in an era of social justice, harmony, and communi ty cooperation. By the 1980s, however, discourse on the market had und ergone a complete inversion. The market was depicted as a dangerous an d alien presence thar threatened to dissolve the primary bonds of a co mmunity-oriented way of life, which had retained its purity and harmon y because of its distance from the realm of exchange.