Isbn: 9780520074484 - war of shadows: the struggle for utopia in the peruvian amazon (13 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 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. This work presents the haunting story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon - told largely by people who were there.…

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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1991. South America, Native Americans. University of California Press. 280p., very good - fine paperback. #3.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - '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.…

Zustand: New. 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. This work presents the haunting story of a failed uprising in the Peru.