The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics - Softcover

Orin Starn, Robin Kirk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082231617X ISBN 13: 9780822316176

Publisher: Duke Univ Pr, 1995

Synopsis

Sixteenth-century Spanish soldiers described Peru as a land filled with gold and silver, a place of untold wealth. Nineteenth-century travelers wrote of soaring Andean peaks plunging into luxuriant Amazonian canyons of orchids, pythons, and jaguars. The early-twentieth-century American adventurer Hiram Bingham told of the raging rivers and the wild jungles he traversed on his way to rediscovering the ";Lost City of the Incas,"; Machu Picchu. Seventy years later, news crews from and CBS traveled to Peru to report on merciless terrorists, starving peasants, and Colombian drug runners in the ";white gold"; rush of the coca trade. As often as not, Peru has been portrayed in broad extremes: as the land of the richest treasures, the bloodiest conquest, the most poignant ballads, and the most violent revolutionaries. This revised and updated second edition of the bestselling Peru Reader offers a deeper understanding of the complex country that lies behind t

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From the Back Cover:

"This is an extremely deep, broad, and insightful collection on Peru."--Jorge Castaneda, author of "Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left after the Cold War" and former Foreign Minister of Mexico

About the Author:

Orin Starn is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He is the author of Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian and Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes, also published by Duke University Press.

Carlos Iván Degregori is Professor of Anthropology at the National University of San Marcos in Lima. He served on Peru’s government-appointed Truth and Reconciliation Commission and has written dozens of books and articles about Peru.

Robin Kirk is Co-director of the Human Rights Initiative at Duke University. She is the author of More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America’s War in Colombia and The Monkey's Paw: New Chronicles from Peru.

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 082231617X
• ISBN 13: 9780822316176
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 552