War of Shadows : The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon

Michael F Brown

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Language: English

Published by University Of California Press Dez 1993, 1993

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Neuware - 'War of Shadows' is the haunting story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon--told largely by people who were there. Late in 1965, Ashaninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who had opened a guerrilla front in Ashaninka territory. They fought, and were crushed by, the overwhelming military force of the Peruvian government. Why did the Indians believe this alliance would deliver them from poverty and the depredations of colonization on their rainforest home With rare insight and eloquence, anthropologists Brown and Fernandez write about an Amazonian people whose contacts with outsiders have repeatedly begun in hope and ended in tragedy.The players in this dramatic confrontation included militants of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), the U. S. Embassy, the Peruvian military, a 'renegade' American settler, and the Ashaninka Indians themselves. Using press reports and archival sources as well as oral histories, the authors weave a vivid tapestry of narratives and counternarratives that challenges the official history of the guerrilla struggle. Central to the story is the Ashaninkas' persistent hope that a messiah would lead them to freedom, a belief with roots in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century jungle rebellions and religious movements.…

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Title
War of Shadows : The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon
Author
Michael F Brown
Publisher
University Of California Press Dez 1993
Publication year
1993
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Language
English
ISBN 10
0520074483
ISBN 13
9780520074484
Item weight
488 grams
Dimensions
228x151x25 mm

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