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Record Nr.

UNISA996247928303316

Autore

Brown Michael F (Michael Fobes), <1950->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©1991

ISBN

0-520-91135-0

0-585-13552-5

Edizione

[Reprint 2019]

Descrizione fisica

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

Disciplina

985/.24

Soggetti

Campa Indians - Wars

Campa Indians - Government relations

Campa Indians - Social conditions

Nativistic movements - Peru - Satipo

Indians, Treatment of - Peru - Satipo

Campa Indians - Wars - Satipo - Peru

Campa Indians - Government relations - Peru - Satipo

Nativistic movements

Indians, Treatment of

Satipo (Peru) Social 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

'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.