How Difficult It Is to Be God Shining Path's Politics of War in Peru, 1980-1999

Name: How Difficult It Is to Be God Shining Path's Politics of War in Peru, 1980-1999
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ISBN: 9780299289249

ISBN-10: 0299289249

ISBN-13: 9780299289249

Edition: 2012

Authors: Carlos Ivï¿½n Degregori, Steve J. Stern, Nancy Appelbaum, Joanna Drzewieniecki, Hï¿½ctor Flores

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The revolutionary war launched by Shining Path, a Maoist insurgency, was the most violent upheaval in modern Peru’s history, claiming some 70,000 lives in the 1980s–1990s and drawing widespread international attention. Yet for many observers, Shining Path’s initial successes were a mystery. What explained its cult-like appeal, and what actually happened inside the Andean communities at war? InHow Difficult It Is to Be GodCarlos Iván Degregori–the world’s leading expert on Shining Path and the intellectual architect for Peru’s highly regarded Truth and Reconciliation Commission–elucidates the movement’s dynamics. An anthropologist who witnessed Shining Path’s recruitment of militants in…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 12/19/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Translators' Preface


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction. Beyond Orientalism in Twentieth-Century Peru: Carlos Ivï¿½an Degregori and the Shining Path War




The War That Surprised us: Why Shining Path Happened



The Years We Lived in Danger: The Armed Conflict, 1980-1999



How Social Sciences Failed? On the Trail of Shining Path, an Elusive Object of Study



The Maturation of a Cosmocrat and the Construction of a Community of Discourse



Revolution by Handbook: The Expansion of Marxism-Leninism in the Social Sciences and the Origins of Shining Path



Harvesting Storms: Why Shining Path Failed



Youth, Peasants, and Political Violence: Ayacucho, 1980-1983



Harvesting Storms: Peasant Rondas and the Defeat of Shining Path in Ayacucho



How Difficult It Is to Be God: Ideology and Political Violence in Shining Path


Epilogue. Open Wounds and Elusive Rights: Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission


Notes


References


Index