The Peru Reader History Culture Politics 2nd Edition by Orin Starn, Ivan Degregori,Robin Kirk ISBN ‎ 0822336499 978-0822336495

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ISBN 10: 0822336499  

ISBN 13: 978-0822336495

Author: Orin Starn, Ivan Degregori,Robin Kirk

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 ABC 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 these claims.
Unparalleled in scope, the volume covers Peru’s history from its extraordinary pre-Columbian civilizations to its citizens’ twenty-first-century struggles to achieve dignity and justice in a multicultural nation where Andean, African, Amazonian, Asian, and European traditions meet. The collection presents a vast array of essays, folklore, historical documents, poetry, songs, short stories, autobiographical accounts, and photographs. Works by contemporary Peruvian intellectuals and politicians appear alongside accounts of those whose voices are less often heard—peasants, street vendors, maids, Amazonian Indians, and African-Peruvians. Including some of the most insightful pieces of Western journalism and scholarship about Peru, the selections provide the traveler and specialist alike with a thorough introduction to the country’s astonishing past and challenging present.

Table of contents: 

1. The Ancient Civilizations
2. The Chavín Cult
3. Nazca Pottery
4. The Huarochirí Manuscript
5. Moon, Sun, Witches
6. The Origins of the Incas
7. Cloth, Textile, and the Inca Empire
8. Taxation and the Incas
9. Officials and Messengers
10. The Search for Machu Picchu
11. Conquest and Colonial Rule
12. Atahualpa and Pizarro
13. In Defense of the Indians
14. Our House
15. The Tragedy of Success
16. Diary of Colonial Lima
17. Friar Martín’s Mice
18. The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru
19. “All Must Die!”
20. Republican Peru
21. The Battle of Ayacucho
22. Comas and the War of the Pacific
23. Priests, Indians, Soldiers, and Heroes
24. Women of Lima
25. Amazonian Indians and the Rubber Boom
26. The Advent of Modern Politics
27. Tempest in the Andes
28. Water!
29. Reflections
30. Human Poems
31. The APRA
32. The Massacre of Chan Chan
33. Lost to Sight
34. The Breakup of the Old Order
35. The Pongo’s Dream
36. “The Master Will No Longer Feed Off Your Poverty”
37. The 24th of June
38. Villa El Salvador
39. Recipe for a House
40. Featherless Vultures
41. Peru’s African Rhythms
42. A Guerrilla’s Word
43. Liberation Theology
44. A World for Julius
45. The Shining Path
46. “A Frightening Thirst for Vengeance”
47. We Are the Initiators
48. The Quota
49. Memories of a Cadre
50. Oath of Loyalty
51. Manchay Tiempo
52. Vietnam in the Andes
53. Death Threat
54. Women and Terror
55. Chaqwa
56. Huamanguino
57. “There Have Been Threats”
58. Peasants at War
59. Time of Reckoning
60. The Cocaine Economy
61. The Hold Life Has
62. My Little Coca, Let Me Chew You!
63. The Cocaine Economy
64. Drugs, Soldiers, and Guerrillas
65. The Struggle for Survival
66. Soup of the Day: Family Kitchen No. 79
67. Nightwatch
68. “A Momentous Decision”
69. Choleric Outbreak
70. Bribing a Congressman
71. Simply Pascuala
72. Culture(s) Redefined
73. Chayraq!
74. The Choncholí Chewing Gum Rap
75. Sarita Colonia Comes Flying
76. Is Peru Turning Protestant?
77. Interview with a Gay Activist
78. Adrenaline Nights
79. Reencounter
80. I Am the Bad Girl of the Story
81. Conversation in the Cathedral
82. The Slave
83. Aguaruna Adventures
84. Self-Images: Workshop for Social Photography
85. Suggestions for Further Reading

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