The Corner of the Living: Ayacucho on the Eve of the Shining Path Insurgency (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) - Softcover

Serna, Miguel La

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807872199 ISBN 13: 9780807872192

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012

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Book by La Serna Miguel

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Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.--Choice Represents a major and original contribution.--Journal of Latin American Studies La Serna's argument is compelling and persuasive. . . . The writing is vivid, the research impressive, and the analysis lucid.--Steve Stern, The Historian Well written, engaging and accessible. . . . La Serna has produced a work that will stand as a key source for understanding Peru's Shining Path war and indigenous peasants' complex participation in the conflict.--Canadian Journal of History Engagingly written and well-researched, La Serna's book is an invaluable contribution for understanding the rise of the Shining Path and communities' responses to it.--"The Americas

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Peru's indigenous peoples played a key role in the tortured tale of Shining Path guerrillas from the 1960s through the first decade of the 21st century. The villagers of Chuschi and Huaychao, high in the mountains of the department of Ayacucho, have an iconic place in this violent history. Emphasising the years leading up to the peak period of violence from 1980 to 2000, when 69,000 people lost their lives, Miguel La Serna asks why some Andean peasants chose to embrace Shining Path ideology and others did not. Drawing on archival materials and ethnographic field work, La Serna argues that historically rooted and locally specific power relations, social conflicts, and cultural understandings shaped the responses of indigenous peasants to the insurgency. In Chuschi, the guerrillas found indigenous support for the movement and dreamed of sparking a world wide Maoist revolution. In Huaychao, by contrast, villagers rose up against Shining Path forces, precipitating more violence and feeding an international uproar that took on political significance for Peru during the Cold War. The Corner of the Living illuminates both the stark realities of life for the rural poor everywhere and why they may or may not choose to mobilise around a revolutionary cause.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0807872199
• ISBN 13: 9780807872192
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304