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The Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path launched its violent campaign against the government in Peru's Ayacucho region in 1980. Focusing on the peasant community of Sarhua that was at the epicenter of the conflict, the author follows the tangled thread of a public secret: the disappearance of Narciso Huicho.

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"Gonzalez's ethnographic meditation on identity, history, violence, inequality, and cultural transformation is a joy to read. In writing that is sharp and insightful, she offers a cutting-edge analysis of local remembering and forgetting juxtaposed with recorded historic events. This is anthropology at its best and a real treat to read." - Victoria Sanford, Lehman College, City University of New York"

Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes

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    A Hardback by Olga M. Gonzalez

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 4/30/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780226302706
      978-0226302706
      ISBN-10 0226302709
      Also in:
      Irregular or guerrilla forces and warfare Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path launched its violent campaign against the government in Peru's Ayacucho region in 1980. Focusing on the peasant community of Sarhua that was at the epicenter of the conflict, the author follows the tangled thread of a public secret: the disappearance of Narciso Huicho.

      Trade Review
      "Gonzalez's ethnographic meditation on identity, history, violence, inequality, and cultural transformation is a joy to read. In writing that is sharp and insightful, she offers a cutting-edge analysis of local remembering and forgetting juxtaposed with recorded historic events. This is anthropology at its best and a real treat to read." - Victoria Sanford, Lehman College, City University of New York"

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