Unruly order
Subtitle: violence, power, and cultural identity in the high provinces of southern Peru
By: edited by Deborah Poole.
Contributors: Poole, Deborah.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Wars; Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Politics and government; Violence -- Andes Region -- History; Ethnicity -- Andes Region; Peasantry -- Andes Region; Andes Region -- Ethnic relations; Andes Region -- Politics and government; Andes Region -- Social conditions
Description: Violence forms a part of the daily rhythms of life in the Peruvian Andes - from the "play" of everyday life to the political actions of the Shining Path. This volume explores how violence has affected the daily lives, cultural identities, and political futures of the inhabitants of Peru's southern high provinces.

In their case studies, the contributors consider how violence has inflected the historical geography of the region; popular discourses of race, ethnicity, and gender; and the forms of local power that perpetuate landlord rule. Unruly Order makes a powerful argument for extending our understanding of this particular regional culture of violence to the social and cultural processes at work in many other parts of Latin America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.