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Offers a penetrating insight into the nature of Colombia's peril. In a nuanced account of the human consequences of a disintegrating state, the author chronicles two weeks in a small town in Colombia's Cauca Valley taken over by paramilitaries that brazenly assassinate adolescent gang members.

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"If you want to know what it is like to live in a country where the state has disintegrated, this moving book by an anthropologist well known for his writings on murderous Colombia will tell you." - Eric Hobsbawm "This is a horrifying and immediate first-person look at globalism's dark side, done with humor, despair, and sympathy." - Publishers Weekly"

Law in a Lawless Land Diary of a Limpieza in

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/11/2005
      ISBN13: 9780226790145, 978-0226790145
      ISBN10: 0226790142
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      Book Synopsis
      Offers a penetrating insight into the nature of Colombia's peril. In a nuanced account of the human consequences of a disintegrating state, the author chronicles two weeks in a small town in Colombia's Cauca Valley taken over by paramilitaries that brazenly assassinate adolescent gang members.

      Trade Review
      "If you want to know what it is like to live in a country where the state has disintegrated, this moving book by an anthropologist well known for his writings on murderous Colombia will tell you." - Eric Hobsbawm "This is a horrifying and immediate first-person look at globalism's dark side, done with humor, despair, and sympathy." - Publishers Weekly"

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