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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777519403321

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

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Voices from the Global Margin looks behind the generalities of debates about globalization to explore the personal impact of global forces on the Peruvian poor. In this highly readable ethnography, William Mitchell draws on the narratives of people he has known for forty years, offering deep insight into how they have coped with extreme poverty and rapid population growth—and their creation of new lives and customs in the process. In their own passionate words they describe their struggles to make ends meet, many abandoning rural homes for marginal wages in Lima and the United States. They chronicle their terror during the



Shining Path guerrilla war and the government's violent military response. Mitchell's long experience as an anthropologist living with the people he writes about allows him to put the stories in context, helping readers understand the impact of the larger world on individuals and their communities. His book reckons up the human costs of the global economy, urging us to work toward a more just world.