Corner of the Living Ayacucho on the Eve of the Shining Path Insurgency

Name: Corner of the Living Ayacucho on the Eve of the Shining Path Insurgency
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ISBN: 9780807872192

ISBN-10: 0807872199

ISBN-13: 9780807872192

Edition: 2012

Authors: Miguel La Serna

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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. Emphasizing 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…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Miguel La Serna is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



To Trace the Tracks: Internal Conflict and Resolution



To Venture Out: Intercommunity Relations and Conflict



To Walk in Shoes: Race and Class



To Cross the River: Initial Peasant Support for Shining Path



To Defend the Mountaintop: Initial Peasant Resistance to Shining Path



To Turn the Corner: After Shining Path


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index