War of shadows : the struggle for utopia in the Peruvian Amazon / Michael F. Brown and Eduardo Fernández.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Michael F. (Michael Fobes), 1950- author.

Fernández, Eduardo (Anthropologist), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (Peru).

Campa Indians--Wars.

Campa Indians.

Campa Indians--Government relations.

Campa Indians--Social conditions.

Nativistic movements--Peru--Satipo.

Nativistic movements.

Indians, Treatment of--Peru--Satipo.

Indians, Treatment of.

Indigenous people, Treatment of--Peru--Satipo.

Satipo (Peru)--Social conditions.

Satipo (Peru).

Local Subjects:

Indigenous people, Treatment of--Peru--Satipo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 280 p., [20] p. of plates ) ill., maps ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1991]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'War of Shadows' is the haunting story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon - told largely by people who were there. Anthropologists Brown and Fernández write about an Amazonian people whose contacts with outsiders have repeatedly begun in hope and ended in tragedy.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

1. To Fill the Granaries of Heaven

2. Return of Lord Inca

3. Amachenga

4. Toward Armed Struggle

5. Tupac Amaru

6. Itomi Pava

7. White Angel

8. Death of a Chronicle Foretold

9. Beyond 1965

10. Coda: Amazonian Indians and the Millennial Dream

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520911352

0520911350

9780585135526

0585135525

OCLC:

1163879244