an Interdisciplinary Anthology Of Work From And About Peru, Including Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, History, And Cultural Analysis, That Includes Many Primary Resources Never Before Published In English.

Orin Starn; Carlos Ivn Degregori; Robin Kirk; Brian M. Fagan; Javier Sologuren; Irene Silverblatt; Garcilaso de la Vega; John Murra; Pedro Cieza de Len; Felipe Guamn Poma de Ayala; Hiram Bingham; John Hemming; Bartolom de las Casas; Marco Martos; Steve J. Stern; Josephe de Mugaburu y Honton; Ricardo Palma; Alberto Flores Galindo; Jose Antonio de Areche; Antonio Cisneros; Florencia E. Mallon; Manuel Gonzlez Prada; Flora Tristan; Manuel Cordova; Luis Valcarcel; Juan Pevez; Jos Carlos Maritegui; Csar Vallejo; Victor Raul Haya de la Torre; Carleton Beals; Csar Moro; Jos Mara Arguedas; Juan Velasco; Gabriel Aragon; Cecilia Blondet; Mercedes Torribio; Julio Ramon Ribreyo; Nicomedes Santa Cruz; Javier Heraud; Gustavo Gutirrez; Alfredo Bryce Echenique; Osman Morote; Abimael Guzmn; Gustavo Gorriti; Nicario; PANCHO; Raquel Martin de Mejia; Ranulfo Fuentes; Maria Elena Moyano; Ponciano del Pino; Salomon Lerner; Catherine J. Allen; Jo Ann Dawell; Chaname; Alberto Fujimori; Caretas; Alberto Kouri; Vladimiro Montesinos; Jos Mara Salcedo; Nosquien y los Nosecuantos; Eduardo Gonzlez Viaa; Luis Minaya; Enrique Bossio; Carmen Oll; Giovanna Pollarolo; Mara Emilia Cornejo; Mario Vargas Lllosa; Jaime Bayly

Starn, Orin; Degregori, Carlos Iván; Kirk, Robin

Orin Starn; Robin Kirk; Carlos Iván Degregori

Orin Starn, Ivan Degregori, Robin Kirk

Durham: Duke University Press

The Latin America readers, 2nd ed., rev. and expanded., Durham, North Carolina, 2005

The Latin America readers, 2nd ed., revised and updated, Durham (N.C.), 2005

2nd ed., rev. and expanded., Durham, NC, United States, 2006

United States, United States of America

Second Edition, Revised, 2005

2nd, PS, 2005

Includes bibliographical references and index.

<p>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 <i>Peru Reader</i> offers a deeper understanding of the complex country that lies behind these claims.</p>
<p>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.</p>


<p>"Vast, multidisciplinary collection contains previously published articles and excerpts from books on Peruvian themes. Concerns archaeology, history, political systems, resistance movements, drugs, and cultural issues. Includes ethnographic contributions of Peruvianists such as Irene Silverblatt, John Murra, Josâe Marâia Arguedes, Catherine Allen, Orin Starn, and others"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
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"This volume presents an interdisciplinary anthology of work from and about Peru, including nonfiction, poetry, journalism, history, and cultural analysis. It includes many primary resources never before published in English, and is a thorough introduction to the country's astonishing past."

ix, 582 p. : 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [567]-570) and index

2023-06-28