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Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes
Orin Starn
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Description for Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes
Paperback. Presents ethnography of peasant communities in Peru caught between the government and the Shining Path. This book chronicles the historical conditions that led to the formation of the rondas, the social and geographical expansion of the movement, and its gradual decline in the 1990s. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 344 pages, 42 b&w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFC; JFSC; JFSF; JHM; JPWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 626.
Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru’s rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds) grew into an entire system of peasant justice and one of the most significant Andean social movements of the late twentieth century. Nightwatch is the first full-length ethnography and the only study in English to examine this grassroots agrarian social movement, which became a rallying point for rural pride.
Drawing on fieldwork conducted over the course of a decade, Orin Starn chronicles the historical conditions that led to the formation ... Read more
Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru’s rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds) grew into an entire system of peasant justice and one of the most significant Andean social movements of the late twentieth century. Nightwatch is the first full-length ethnography and the only study in English to examine this grassroots agrarian social movement, which became a rallying point for rural pride.
Drawing on fieldwork conducted over the course of a decade, Orin Starn chronicles the historical conditions that led to the formation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
Latin America Otherwise
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822323211
SKU
V9780822323211
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About Orin Starn
Orin Starn is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He is a coeditor of The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews for Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes
“A wonderful tool. This volume offers a wealth of resources from a range of critical perspectives.”—Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine “Nightwatch is an engaging, elegant, and enlightening account of one of the most important rural movements to emerge from Latin America since the 1960s. Orin Starn writes in direct and artfully crafted prose informed at the same time by ... Read more