1992, ISBN: 0520074351

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[SC: 31.14], [PU: University of California Press 1992], Jacket, VG bright tight copy in publishers cloth in rubbed dustjacket with couple small closed tears. 1st edition, 1st issue. "War … Mehr…

[SC: 31.14], [PU: University of California Press 1992], Jacket, VG bright tight copy in publishers cloth in rubbed dustjacket with couple small closed tears. 1st edition, 1st issue. "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. ISBN 0520074351<

1992, ISBN: 0520074351

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[SC: 14.92], [PU: University of California Press 1992], Jacket, VG bright tight copy in publishers cloth in rubbed dustjacket with couple small closed tears. 1st edition, 1st issue. "War … Mehr…

[SC: 14.92], [PU: University of California Press 1992], Jacket, VG bright tight copy in publishers cloth in rubbed dustjacket with couple small closed tears. 1st edition, 1st issue. "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. ISBN 0520074351<

1991, ISBN: 9780520074354

University of California Press, 1991. First printing, 275 pp., Hardcover, fine in a very good dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and… Mehr…

University of California Press, 1991. First printing, 275 pp., Hardcover, fine in a very good dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country., University of California Press, 1991, 0<

ISBN: 9780520074354

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