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Title

Between reform & revolution : political struggles in the Peruvian Andes, 1969-1991 / Linda J. Seligmann.

Author

Seligmann, Linda J., 1954-

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1995.

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Description

x, 268 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"The reform program introduced by Peruvian President General Juan Velasco Alvarado in 1969, a year after he seized power in a military coup, ushered in one of the most ambitious agrarian reforms in Latin America. This book argues that the economic, political, and cultural dynamics set in motion by the reforms are central to understanding the brutal civil war that ensued in Peru between the state and members of the Maoist-Leninist Shining Path guerrilla movement. Based on five years of fieldwork in the southern Andean district of Huanoquite, it portrays the extraordinary complexity of the lives of the Quechua-speaking peasants as they seek to shape their relationships to both the state and the Shining Path. The book also traces the ways in which memories and symbols of Inca, colonial, and modern national authority shape both peasant mobilisation and the rhetoric of the state."--Publisher description.

Alternative Title

Between reform and revolution

Subject

• Geschichte 1969-1991
• Land reform > Huanoquite
• Peasants > Huanoquite > Political activity
• Huanoquite (Peru) > Rural conditions

Note

• "Program in agrarian studies, Yale University."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Structuring Huanoquite's Regional Space -- 2. The Agrarian Reform Project -- 3. Contesting Meanings of Labor and Territorial Control -- 4. Double Visions: Images of Peasants, Technocrats, and Landlords -- 5. Shifting Political Fields -- 6. Changing Landscapes in Huanoquite after the Reform -- 7. Two Lives Coming into Power -- 8. Power Struggles and Paths to Development -- 9. Questioning State Reform: Sendero Luminoso -- App.A. History of Huanoquite's Social Organization -- App.B. Reform Statistics in Huanoquite District.

ISBN

• 0804724423 (alk. paper)
• 0804724431 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^94034937^

OCLC

31077550

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library