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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451674603321

Autore

Mitchell William P. <1937->

Titolo

Voices from the global margin [[electronic resource] ] : confronting poverty and inventing new lives in the Andes / / by William P. Mitchell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2006

ISBN

0-292-79614-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

305.898/085

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Peru - Economic conditions

Indians of South America - Peru - Social conditions

Indians of South America - Peru - Government relations

Poverty - Peru

Peasants - Peru

Electronic books.

Peru Politics and government 1980-

Peru Social conditions

Peru Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-254) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: A personal and intellectual odyssey -- Pablo and Claudia : peasant farming -- Horacio and Benjamina : gender, race, ethnicity, and class -- Horacio and Benjamina : confronting village poverty -- Martín : confronting migrant poverty -- Valentina : from bride by capture to international migrant -- Triga : guerrilla war, cocaine, and commerce -- El Comandante Tigre : the peasant patrols and war -- Anastasio : fleeing shining path -- At the margin of the shifting world.