No bells to toll
Subtitle: destruction and creation in the Andes
By: Barbara Bode.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 559
Subjects: Bode, Barbara -- Travel -- Peru -- Huaylas, Callejón de, Region.; Earthquakes -- Peru -- Huaylas, Callejón de, Region -- History -- 20th century.; Earthquakes -- Peru -- Huaylas, Callejón de, Region -- Religious aspects.; Huaylas, Callejón de, Region (Peru) -- History.; Huaylas, Callejón de, Region (Peru) -- Description and travel.
Description: On May 31, 1970, an earthquake in the Peruvian Andes dislodged a mass of ice and rubble that careened down the mountainside, scouring out the contents of the valley below. The greatest recorded natural disaster of the Western hemisphere, it claimed 75,000 lives. Anthropologist Barbara Bode studied the effects of the disaster - how the victims survived; how they coped or didn't cope with loss of family and homes; the rifts in the church; and the breakdown of social classes in the aftermath.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [535]-544.
Includes index.