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MITCHELL, William.
Voices from the global margin: confronting poverty and inventing new lives in the Andes.
2006
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006, 268 pp.
0292713002
Biblioteca PUCP. Biblioteca C.C.S.S. Código: HD 1330 M66
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Resumen:
In chapter I, Pablo de la Cruz and Claudia Velarde, Quechua-speaking peasants, represent something of a baseline. Neither fit the mold of the archetypal, nonchanging peasant that soe anthropologists incorrectly emphasized in the past.
In chapter II Horacio Gutierrez and Benjamina Enriquez illustrate sigues of gender, race, and class, social forces that have constrained peasant choices and that underlie many of the abuses of the Shining path war.
The next two chapters depict peasants who migrated from their rural homes. Chapter IV describes Martin Velarde, who, forced by dren in San Pedro to seek work on the coast of Peru. Valentina Rodriguez (Chapter V) began life as the daughter of small hacienda owners, but now lives in the United States, a relatively successful international migrant, even as she has worked as a maid cleaning houses and caring for a children.
Chapters VI, VII and VIII portray the economic devastation and violence of the 1980´s through the eyes of Triga, who was a teenager was briefly a partisan of Shining Path and a participant in the cocaine trade.
Chapter IX explores the forces underlying these changes. To many who live in north of Mexico, Latin America is like the waiter at the table: essential to the meal but ignored and unnoted.
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