Unveiling secrets of war in the Peruvian Andes
The Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path launched its violent campaign against the government in Peru's Ayacucho region in 1980. When the military and counterinsurgency police forces were dispatched to oppose the insurrection, the violence quickly escalated. The peasant community of Sarhua was a...
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University of Chicago Press
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- The making of the ethnography
- The village and the impact of political violence
- Sarhua Llaqta: the village and its people
- The times of danger
- The said and the unsaid
- An unusual visit
- Intended forgetfulness
- Gossip
- The missing image of the disappeared man
- Envy
- Ressentiment
- Confession
- The power to silence
- The production of "truth"
- Old and new Sarhuino painting traditions
- Events, blamed actors and time sequence in the "piraq causa"
- Absent themes
- Unexpected viewers and the question of "truth"
- The role of imagination
- Traces of the real
- Relationship between the image and the text
- Condensation, exaggeration, and accentuation
- Symbolism
- Social disruption
- The threat of individualism: an inside enemy
- The threat of outside enemies: a call for unity
- A threat to abolish the "varayoqkuna" system: a sign of disunity
- A familiar secret
- A crucial alliance
- A deferred response
- The final push
- The uprising
- Capricho
- The expulsion
- Sarhua charged with terrorism
- Narciso seeks revenge
- The community's reaction
- A secretly deserved death
- Ambiguous realities
- Narciso appears in dreams
- Between the visible and the invisible
- Qarqachas
- Defiant qarqachas
- Condenados
- The condenado of Ranranizio
- The condenado of Aywiri
- Behind the visible
- Another "disappearance"
- Secret 1: the invisible presence of the state
- Secret 2: communal justice or private revenge?
- Secret 3: the community's endorsement of Justiniano and Sendero
- Secret 4: the surrender and pardon of Sarhuino Senderistas