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Unruly order : violence, power, and cultural identity in the high provinces of southern Peru

Author: Deborah Poole
Publisher: Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Violence forms a part of the daily rhythms of life in the Peruvian Andes - from the "play" of everyday life to the political actions of the Shining Path. This volume explores how violence has affected the daily lives, cultural identities, and political futures of the inhabitants of Peru's southern high provinces. In their case studies, the contributors consider how violence has inflected the historical geography of  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Deborah Poole
ISBN: 0813387493 9780813387499
OCLC Number: 30112092
Description: ix, 285 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Regional isolation in the high provinces of Cusco and Apurímac / Daniel W. Gade --
The dead policemen speak: power, fear, and narrative in the 1931 Molluccahua Killings (Cusco) / Benjamin Orlove --
Performance, domination, and identity in the Tierras Bravas of Chumbivilcas (Cusco) / Deborah Poole --
Sticks and stones: ritual battles and play in the southern Peruvian Andes / Benjamin Orlove --
Embodied violence: racial identity and the semiotics of property in Huaquirca, Antabamba (Apurímac) / Peter Gose --
Gamonalismo after the challenge of agrarian reform: the case of Capacmarca, Chumbivilcas (Cusco) / Christiane Paponnet-Cantat --
Political violence, the state, and the peasant struggle for land (Puno) / José Luis Rénique --
Peasant culture and political violence in Peruvian Andes: Sendero Luminoso and the state / Deborah Poole.
Responsibility: edited by Deborah Poole.

Abstract:

Violence forms a part of the daily rhythms of life in the Peruvian Andes - from the "play" of everyday life to the political actions of the Shining Path. This volume explores how violence has affected the daily lives, cultural identities, and political futures of the inhabitants of Peru's southern high provinces. In their case studies, the contributors consider how violence has inflected the historical geography of the region; popular discourses of race, ethnicity, and gender; and the forms of local power that perpetuate landlord rule. Unruly Order makes a powerful argument for extending our understanding of this particular regional culture of violence to the social and cultural processes at work in many other parts of Latin America.

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