Unveiling secrets of war in the Peruvian Andes /
González, Olga M.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The making of the ethnography -- The village and the impact of political violence -- Sarhua Llaqta: the village and its people -- The times of danger -- The said and the unsaid -- An unusual visit -- Intended forgetfulness -- Gossip -- The missing image of the disappeared man -- Envy -- Ressentiment -- Confession -- The power to silence -- The production of "truth" -- Old and new Sarhuino painting traditions -- Events, blamed actors and time sequence in the "piraq causa" -- Absent themes -- Unexpected viewers and the question of "truth" -- The role of imagination -- Traces of the real -- Relationship between the image and the text -- Condensation, exaggeration, and accentuation -- Symbolism -- Social disruption -- The threat of individualism: an inside enemy -- The threat of outside enemies: a call for unity -- A threat to abolish the "varayoqkuna" system: a sign of disunity -- A familiar secret -- A crucial alliance -- A deferred response -- The final push -- The uprising -- Capricho -- The expulsion -- Sarhua charged with terrorism -- Narciso seeks revenge -- The community's reaction -- A secretly deserved death -- Ambiguous realities -- Narciso appears in dreams -- Between the visible and the invisible -- Qarqachas -- Defiant qarqachas -- Condenados -- The condenado of Ranranizio -- The condenado of Aywiri -- Behind the visible -- Another "disappearance" -- Secret 1: the invisible presence of the state -- Secret 2: communal justice or private revenge? -- Secret 3: the community's endorsement of Justiniano and Sendero -- Secret 4: the surrender and pardon of Sarhuino Senderistas.
Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group)
Painting
Violence in art.