Power, Culture, and Violence in the Andes

by Hunefeldt, Christine; Kokotovic, Milos

• ISBN13: 9781845192471
• ISBN10: 1845192478
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

Scholars from Anthropology, History, and Literary and Cultural Studies present their current research on culture and violence in the Andean region. Within an interdisciplinary approach, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and mutually constitutive relationship of culture and violence in Peru and Bolivia, countries with large indigenous populations who have largely preserved their culture and way of life in spite of centuries of colonial domination and the encroachment of capitalist modernization, including its latest free-market variant. The intertwined histories of culture and violence in the Andes are examined through analyses of the indigenous and popular mobilization that brought Evo Morales to power as Bolivia's first indigenous president, conservative Latin American intellectuals' response to this popular rejection of neoliberal economic and social policies, the work of Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the legacy of the Shining Path war, and nineteenth-century intellectual and political discourses on race, gender, and the incorporation of indigenous peoples into the nation-state.

Author Biography

Christine Hunefeldt is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies at UC, San Diego. Her publications include, Comunidades indigenas entre Colonia y Republica (1992); Paying the Price of Freedom (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994); and A Brief History of Peru (rev. edn., 2004). Misha Kokotovic is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at UC, San Diego. His publications about the Andes include The Colonial Divide in Peruvian Narrative (SAP, 2005, 2007).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction and Presentation	p. 1
Histories of Violence
Power, Culture, and Violence in the Andes	p. 9
Within Slavery: Marking Property and Making Men in Colonial Peru	p. 29
Power Constellations in Peru: Military Recruitment Around the War of the Pacific in Puno	p. 50
Heroic Masculinities and the War of the Pacific	p. 85
Ethnicity, Power, and Violence
"!piruanos, carajo!": Mario Vargas Llosa, Violence, and Modernity	p. 99
To Cross the River of Blood: How and Inter-Community Conflict is Linked to the Peruvian Civil War, 1940-1983	p. 110
Ethnic Politics and Popular Mobilization in Bolivia	p. 145
Andean Utopias in Evo Morales's Bolivia	p. 158
The Contributors	p. 189
Index	p. 191
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