WILLEM F. H. ADELAAR
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780197265031
- eISBN:
- 9780191754142
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197265031.003.0008
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, American History: pre-Columbian BCE to 500CE
This chapter defends the hypothesis that Quechua was brought to Cajamarca during the final expansion of the Huari state (ad 800–900). It offers an alternative for the traditional view that Cajamarca ...
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This chapter defends the hypothesis that Quechua was brought to Cajamarca during the final expansion of the Huari state (ad 800–900). It offers an alternative for the traditional view that Cajamarca Quechua originated on the central coast of Peru, immediately south-east of Lima. Archaic features of Cajamarca Quechua suggest that it became separated from the main body of the Quechua II branch of the family before it attained its present state of internal differentiation. Possibly the least innovative Quechua II dialect spoken today is that of Ayacucho region, where the Huari capital lay. Together this suggests that population movements underlying the existence of present-day Cajamarca Quechua may have originated in the Huari heartland. This association of Quechua II with Huari prompts a reconsideration of the prevalent view that Ayacucho, including Huari, would have been an exclusive stronghold of the Aymaran languages.Less
This chapter defends the hypothesis that Quechua was brought to Cajamarca during the final expansion of the Huari state (ad 800–900). It offers an alternative for the traditional view that Cajamarca Quechua originated on the central coast of Peru, immediately south-east of Lima. Archaic features of Cajamarca Quechua suggest that it became separated from the main body of the Quechua II branch of the family before it attained its present state of internal differentiation. Possibly the least innovative Quechua II dialect spoken today is that of Ayacucho region, where the Huari capital lay. Together this suggests that population movements underlying the existence of present-day Cajamarca Quechua may have originated in the Huari heartland. This association of Quechua II with Huari prompts a reconsideration of the prevalent view that Ayacucho, including Huari, would have been an exclusive stronghold of the Aymaran languages.
Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520237445
- eISBN:
- 9780520936980
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520237445.003.0009
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
Most inquiries concerning democracy phenomenon in Latin America stay preoccupied with explaining the tendency, mostly in context of the new or the “Third Wave” democracies to appeal directly to their ...
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Most inquiries concerning democracy phenomenon in Latin America stay preoccupied with explaining the tendency, mostly in context of the new or the “Third Wave” democracies to appeal directly to their citizenries. In the process, these inquiries majorly lose out on the nature or dynamics of citizen initiative or response. This chapter aims at sorting out this imbalance by exploring politics at the base of society, rather than at its center, by examining the case of Peru. It reviews the political dynamics of local-level governance in Peru, understood as policy implementation and interaction with civil society, in the south-central highland departamento Ayacucho. Appraising the analytical distinction between government policy initiatives and the activities of the civil society, the chapter reflects on the difficulty concerning distinction between “government-down” and “citizen-up” activities. It employs the hypothesis that local populations resort to self-help when the government is unable or unwilling to act.Less
Most inquiries concerning democracy phenomenon in Latin America stay preoccupied with explaining the tendency, mostly in context of the new or the “Third Wave” democracies to appeal directly to their citizenries. In the process, these inquiries majorly lose out on the nature or dynamics of citizen initiative or response. This chapter aims at sorting out this imbalance by exploring politics at the base of society, rather than at its center, by examining the case of Peru. It reviews the political dynamics of local-level governance in Peru, understood as policy implementation and interaction with civil society, in the south-central highland departamento Ayacucho. Appraising the analytical distinction between government policy initiatives and the activities of the civil society, the chapter reflects on the difficulty concerning distinction between “government-down” and “citizen-up” activities. It employs the hypothesis that local populations resort to self-help when the government is unable or unwilling to act.
Tiffiny A. Tung
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813037677
- eISBN:
- 9780813042183
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813037677.003.0003
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
This chapter gives a summary of the history of Wari studies and the current state of knowledge on the Wari Empire, and also summarizes the archaeological evidence for Wari presence or influence in ...
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This chapter gives a summary of the history of Wari studies and the current state of knowledge on the Wari Empire, and also summarizes the archaeological evidence for Wari presence or influence in various parts of the ancient Andes. Three archaeological populations are the focus of this study, and the chapter describes the cultural context for each of them. These include the site of Conchopata in the imperial heartland and the sites of Beringa and La Real in the Majes Valley in southern Peru.Less
This chapter gives a summary of the history of Wari studies and the current state of knowledge on the Wari Empire, and also summarizes the archaeological evidence for Wari presence or influence in various parts of the ancient Andes. Three archaeological populations are the focus of this study, and the chapter describes the cultural context for each of them. These include the site of Conchopata in the imperial heartland and the sites of Beringa and La Real in the Majes Valley in southern Peru.
Jaymie Heilman
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804770941
- eISBN:
- 9780804775786
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804770941.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
From 1980 to 1992, Maoist Shining Path rebels, Peruvian state forces, and Andean peasants waged a bitter civil war that left some 69,000 people dead. Using archival research and oral interviews, this ...
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From 1980 to 1992, Maoist Shining Path rebels, Peruvian state forces, and Andean peasants waged a bitter civil war that left some 69,000 people dead. Using archival research and oral interviews, this book is a long-term historical examination of the Shining Path's political, economic, and social antecedents in Ayacucho, the department where the Shining Path initiated its war. This study uncovers rural Ayacucho's vibrant, but largely unstudied twentieth-century political history and contends that the Shining Path was the last and most extreme of a series of radical political movements that indigenous peasants pursued. The Shining Path's violence against rural indigenous populations exposed the tight hold of anti-Indian prejudice inside Peru, as rebels reproduced the same hatreds they aimed to defeat. But, this was nothing new. The book reveals that minute divides inside rural indigenous communities repeatedly led to violent conflict across the twentieth century.Less
From 1980 to 1992, Maoist Shining Path rebels, Peruvian state forces, and Andean peasants waged a bitter civil war that left some 69,000 people dead. Using archival research and oral interviews, this book is a long-term historical examination of the Shining Path's political, economic, and social antecedents in Ayacucho, the department where the Shining Path initiated its war. This study uncovers rural Ayacucho's vibrant, but largely unstudied twentieth-century political history and contends that the Shining Path was the last and most extreme of a series of radical political movements that indigenous peasants pursued. The Shining Path's violence against rural indigenous populations exposed the tight hold of anti-Indian prejudice inside Peru, as rebels reproduced the same hatreds they aimed to defeat. But, this was nothing new. The book reveals that minute divides inside rural indigenous communities repeatedly led to violent conflict across the twentieth century.
Anne Lambright
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781781382516
- eISBN:
- 9781786945471
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781382516.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter examines the theatrical interventions by Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani, Peru’s premier popular theater collective, at the CVR’s public hearings in Huanta and Huamanga. From an established ...
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This chapter examines the theatrical interventions by Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani, Peru’s premier popular theater collective, at the CVR’s public hearings in Huanta and Huamanga. From an established repertoire on Peruvian cultural heterogeneity, ethnic and gendered violence, and the war, Yuyachkani presented two plays whose protagonists are dead (one indigenous male, one mythic female) and called upon more (indigenous) dead when creating new pieces to accompany the endeavor, suggesting that after years of sustained—real and symbolic—violence, only the dead can embody the national situation, serve as the nation’s memory, and bridge individual and collective trauma. Challenging the therapeutic efforts of the CVR, dead bodies of marginalized subjects, and their ghosts, serve to explore collective and individual trauma, and mediate between the people and the state.Less
This chapter examines the theatrical interventions by Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani, Peru’s premier popular theater collective, at the CVR’s public hearings in Huanta and Huamanga. From an established repertoire on Peruvian cultural heterogeneity, ethnic and gendered violence, and the war, Yuyachkani presented two plays whose protagonists are dead (one indigenous male, one mythic female) and called upon more (indigenous) dead when creating new pieces to accompany the endeavor, suggesting that after years of sustained—real and symbolic—violence, only the dead can embody the national situation, serve as the nation’s memory, and bridge individual and collective trauma. Challenging the therapeutic efforts of the CVR, dead bodies of marginalized subjects, and their ghosts, serve to explore collective and individual trauma, and mediate between the people and the state.
Anne Lambright
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781781382516
- eISBN:
- 9781786945471
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781382516.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter considers products of the Rescate por la memoria (Rescuing memory) contests in Ayacucho; these post-CVR interventions by Yuyarisun, a collective of Peruvian and international NGOs, ...
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This chapter considers products of the Rescate por la memoria (Rescuing memory) contests in Ayacucho; these post-CVR interventions by Yuyarisun, a collective of Peruvian and international NGOs, invited entries in poetry, painting, illustrated stories, music, and narratives by local inhabitants. The works give an Andean perspective that is present in victims’ testimonies but largely absent in the CVR’s final analysis and recommendations. These ‘different memories’ frequently go against the grain of official discourses on the Shining Path era and the postconflict future of Peru. They are creative responses that defy easy interpretations of events and cookie-cutter resolutions based on ‘universal’ human rights values, while belying dominant visions of a ‘new Peru’ moving forward in a unified manner, having faced and overcome the recent past.Less
This chapter considers products of the Rescate por la memoria (Rescuing memory) contests in Ayacucho; these post-CVR interventions by Yuyarisun, a collective of Peruvian and international NGOs, invited entries in poetry, painting, illustrated stories, music, and narratives by local inhabitants. The works give an Andean perspective that is present in victims’ testimonies but largely absent in the CVR’s final analysis and recommendations. These ‘different memories’ frequently go against the grain of official discourses on the Shining Path era and the postconflict future of Peru. They are creative responses that defy easy interpretations of events and cookie-cutter resolutions based on ‘universal’ human rights values, while belying dominant visions of a ‘new Peru’ moving forward in a unified manner, having faced and overcome the recent past.
Anne Lambright
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781781382516
- eISBN:
- 9781786945471
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781382516.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
The conclusion ties together the themes of transitional justice, nation building, and ethnicity by briefly examining three “memory museums”: the Lugar de la Memoria in Lima, and two museums in ...
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The conclusion ties together the themes of transitional justice, nation building, and ethnicity by briefly examining three “memory museums”: the Lugar de la Memoria in Lima, and two museums in Ayacucho. The first is a controversial effort by the state to create a national museum to commemorate the conflict. The two museums in Ayacucho are local efforts, the Museo de la Memoria in Huamanga, established by Quechua-speaking mothers of dead and disappeared persons, the Yuyana Wasi museum in the municipality of Huanta. The conclusion asks why, within the context of Peruvian transitional justice efforts, the official, state-sponsored memory space has experienced so many difficulties, its opening delayed for years, while unofficial, even rebellious, grassroots efforts have comparatively succeeded in providing spaces where Peru can confront its difficult past.Less
The conclusion ties together the themes of transitional justice, nation building, and ethnicity by briefly examining three “memory museums”: the Lugar de la Memoria in Lima, and two museums in Ayacucho. The first is a controversial effort by the state to create a national museum to commemorate the conflict. The two museums in Ayacucho are local efforts, the Museo de la Memoria in Huamanga, established by Quechua-speaking mothers of dead and disappeared persons, the Yuyana Wasi museum in the municipality of Huanta. The conclusion asks why, within the context of Peruvian transitional justice efforts, the official, state-sponsored memory space has experienced so many difficulties, its opening delayed for years, while unofficial, even rebellious, grassroots efforts have comparatively succeeded in providing spaces where Peru can confront its difficult past.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804770941
- eISBN:
- 9780804775786
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804770941.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the history of the Partido Comunista del Perú-Por el Sendero Luminoso de Mariátegui or the Maoist Shining Path (PCP-SL) in ...
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This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the history of the Partido Comunista del Perú-Por el Sendero Luminoso de Mariátegui or the Maoist Shining Path (PCP-SL) in rural Ayacucho, Peru, during the period from 1895 to 1980. This book attempts to make sense of Shining Path by looking backward in time, tracing eighty-five years of historical processes that prefaced the party and its war. Its coverage include the politics of abandon in Ayacucho, the Tawantinsuyo Movement, the history of the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA), the politics of literacy, and the emergence of Trotskyism and popular action during the term of President Fernando Belaúnde Terry.Less
This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the history of the Partido Comunista del Perú-Por el Sendero Luminoso de Mariátegui or the Maoist Shining Path (PCP-SL) in rural Ayacucho, Peru, during the period from 1895 to 1980. This book attempts to make sense of Shining Path by looking backward in time, tracing eighty-five years of historical processes that prefaced the party and its war. Its coverage include the politics of abandon in Ayacucho, the Tawantinsuyo Movement, the history of the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA), the politics of literacy, and the emergence of Trotskyism and popular action during the term of President Fernando Belaúnde Terry.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804770941
- eISBN:
- 9780804775786
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804770941.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter examines the history of the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) in Ayacucho, Peru, in the 1930s. It traces the party's emergence and popularity in Carhuanca and highlights ...
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This chapter examines the history of the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) in Ayacucho, Peru, in the 1930s. It traces the party's emergence and popularity in Carhuanca and highlights the support of the district's most powerful campesinos who connected the party's national discourses to their local struggles for political power and land. It explains that the party promised both socioeconomic justice and a national political transformation that would wrest power from the hands of the aristocracy and turn it over to the masses.Less
This chapter examines the history of the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) in Ayacucho, Peru, in the 1930s. It traces the party's emergence and popularity in Carhuanca and highlights the support of the district's most powerful campesinos who connected the party's national discourses to their local struggles for political power and land. It explains that the party promised both socioeconomic justice and a national political transformation that would wrest power from the hands of the aristocracy and turn it over to the masses.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804770941
- eISBN:
- 9780804775786
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804770941.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter examines the history of the emergence of Trotsykism in Ayacucho, Peru, during the years of President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. It analyzes how the Carhuanca campesinos approached the ...
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This chapter examines the history of the emergence of Trotsykism in Ayacucho, Peru, during the years of President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. It analyzes how the Carhuanca campesinos approached the promise and possibility of fundamental socioeconomic transformation, living within a national and departmental context of considerable rural political activism. It describes the challenges faced by the Carhuanquinos who affiliated themselves with Trotskyism and highlights their ineffectiveness as revolutionaries because of their long-standing local enmities and their overt hostility toward Catholicism.Less
This chapter examines the history of the emergence of Trotsykism in Ayacucho, Peru, during the years of President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. It analyzes how the Carhuanca campesinos approached the promise and possibility of fundamental socioeconomic transformation, living within a national and departmental context of considerable rural political activism. It describes the challenges faced by the Carhuanquinos who affiliated themselves with Trotskyism and highlights their ineffectiveness as revolutionaries because of their long-standing local enmities and their overt hostility toward Catholicism.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804770941
- eISBN:
- 9780804775786
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804770941.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter examines the re-emergence of the politics of abandon in Ayacucho, Peru, in 1978. It suggests that General Juan Velasco Alvarado's ouster and the military government's decision to ...
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This chapter examines the re-emergence of the politics of abandon in Ayacucho, Peru, in 1978. It suggests that General Juan Velasco Alvarado's ouster and the military government's decision to transition Peru back to civilian government marked the resumption of the politics of abandon for Carhuanca. It explains that departmental and national authorities decided to concede to the increasingly dire protests of citizens in Carhuanca and other eastern Cangallo districts during the remaining years of the 1970s. This chapter also discusses the involvement of locals with the Shining Path and the civil war waged by the party which ended with the capture of its leader Abimael Guzmán in 1992.Less
This chapter examines the re-emergence of the politics of abandon in Ayacucho, Peru, in 1978. It suggests that General Juan Velasco Alvarado's ouster and the military government's decision to transition Peru back to civilian government marked the resumption of the politics of abandon for Carhuanca. It explains that departmental and national authorities decided to concede to the increasingly dire protests of citizens in Carhuanca and other eastern Cangallo districts during the remaining years of the 1970s. This chapter also discusses the involvement of locals with the Shining Path and the civil war waged by the party which ended with the capture of its leader Abimael Guzmán in 1992.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804770941
- eISBN:
- 9780804775786
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804770941.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of the Maoist Shining Path (PCP-SL) in rural Ayacucho, Peru, during the period from 1895 to 1980. It suggests that the emergence of ...
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This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of the Maoist Shining Path (PCP-SL) in rural Ayacucho, Peru, during the period from 1895 to 1980. It suggests that the emergence of the Shining Path and its devastating civil war was brought about by a series of political developments in Ayacucho prior to 1980. It also highlights the fact that Senderistas ultimately replicated the ways of the traditionally abusive local notables and used violence and the threat of violence to coerce impoverished, indigenous Carhuanquinos to do their bidding and to provide their sustenance.Less
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of the Maoist Shining Path (PCP-SL) in rural Ayacucho, Peru, during the period from 1895 to 1980. It suggests that the emergence of the Shining Path and its devastating civil war was brought about by a series of political developments in Ayacucho prior to 1980. It also highlights the fact that Senderistas ultimately replicated the ways of the traditionally abusive local notables and used violence and the threat of violence to coerce impoverished, indigenous Carhuanquinos to do their bidding and to provide their sustenance.
Miguel La Serna
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835470
- eISBN:
- 9781469601915
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807882634_la_serna
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
Peru's indigenous peoples played a key role in the tortured tale of Shining Path guerrillas from the 1960s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. The villagers of Chuschi and Huaychao, ...
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Peru's indigenous peoples played a key role in the tortured tale of Shining Path guerrillas from the 1960s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. The villagers of Chuschi and Huaychao, high in the mountains of the department of Ayacucho, have an iconic place in this violent history. Emphasizing the years leading up to the peak period of violence from 1980 to 2000, when 69,000 people lost their lives, this book asks why some Andean peasants chose to embrace Shining Path ideology and others did not. Drawing on archival materials and ethnographic fieldwork, it argues that historically rooted and locally specific power relations, social conflicts, and cultural understandings shaped the responses of indigenous peasants to the insurgency. In Chuschi, the guerrillas found indigenous support for the movement and dreamed of sparking a worldwide Maoist revolution. In Huaychao, by contrast, villagers rose up against Shining Path forces, precipitating more violence and feeding an international uproar that took on political significance for Peru during the Cold War. The book illuminates both the stark realities of life for the rural poor everywhere and why they may or may not choose to mobilize around a revolutionary cause.Less
Peru's indigenous peoples played a key role in the tortured tale of Shining Path guerrillas from the 1960s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. The villagers of Chuschi and Huaychao, high in the mountains of the department of Ayacucho, have an iconic place in this violent history. Emphasizing the years leading up to the peak period of violence from 1980 to 2000, when 69,000 people lost their lives, this book asks why some Andean peasants chose to embrace Shining Path ideology and others did not. Drawing on archival materials and ethnographic fieldwork, it argues that historically rooted and locally specific power relations, social conflicts, and cultural understandings shaped the responses of indigenous peasants to the insurgency. In Chuschi, the guerrillas found indigenous support for the movement and dreamed of sparking a worldwide Maoist revolution. In Huaychao, by contrast, villagers rose up against Shining Path forces, precipitating more violence and feeding an international uproar that took on political significance for Peru during the Cold War. The book illuminates both the stark realities of life for the rural poor everywhere and why they may or may not choose to mobilize around a revolutionary cause.
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853239086
- eISBN:
- 9781846312687
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853239086.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter examines the factors that led to the declaration of Peru's independence by Jose de San Martín in Lima in 1821 and the subsequent establishment of the new republic in 1824 following the ...
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This chapter examines the factors that led to the declaration of Peru's independence by Jose de San Martín in Lima in 1821 and the subsequent establishment of the new republic in 1824 following the triumph of patriotism over royalism. It looks at the history of Peru between the collapse of metropolitan authority in 1810 and the patriots' victory at Ayacucho in 1824, the pre-1810 movements and conspiracies, and the more significant manifestations of insurgency in Peru in the second decade of the nineteenth century. The chapter argues that most of the country's creoles did not fight for independence, but instead resorted to fidelismo – the insistence upon the maintenance of Peru's subordinate relationship with metropolitan Spain – in order to preserve their privileged position within the viceroyalty of españoles as well as restore the viceroyalty's pre-eminence in South America.Less
This chapter examines the factors that led to the declaration of Peru's independence by Jose de San Martín in Lima in 1821 and the subsequent establishment of the new republic in 1824 following the triumph of patriotism over royalism. It looks at the history of Peru between the collapse of metropolitan authority in 1810 and the patriots' victory at Ayacucho in 1824, the pre-1810 movements and conspiracies, and the more significant manifestations of insurgency in Peru in the second decade of the nineteenth century. The chapter argues that most of the country's creoles did not fight for independence, but instead resorted to fidelismo – the insistence upon the maintenance of Peru's subordinate relationship with metropolitan Spain – in order to preserve their privileged position within the viceroyalty of españoles as well as restore the viceroyalty's pre-eminence in South America.
Miguel La Serna
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835470
- eISBN:
- 9781469601915
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807882634_la_serna.5
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
Ayacucho is the epicenter of a civil war between 1980 and 2000 that claimed the lives of 69,000. Chuschi, a village in Ayacucho, served as an early stronghold for the Shining Path guerrilla and the ...
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Ayacucho is the epicenter of a civil war between 1980 and 2000 that claimed the lives of 69,000. Chuschi, a village in Ayacucho, served as an early stronghold for the Shining Path guerrilla and the location of numerous insurgent acts. Huaychao, another Ayacuchan village, saw the proliferation of peasant counterinsurgency militias known as the rondas campesinas. This book is a comparative study of the long-term experiences of and cultural perceptions of Chuschi (the symbolic birthplace of insurgency) and Huaychao (the birthplace of counterinsurgency) to understand the disparate and violent responses of indigenous peasants to Shining Path.Less
Ayacucho is the epicenter of a civil war between 1980 and 2000 that claimed the lives of 69,000. Chuschi, a village in Ayacucho, served as an early stronghold for the Shining Path guerrilla and the location of numerous insurgent acts. Huaychao, another Ayacuchan village, saw the proliferation of peasant counterinsurgency militias known as the rondas campesinas. This book is a comparative study of the long-term experiences of and cultural perceptions of Chuschi (the symbolic birthplace of insurgency) and Huaychao (the birthplace of counterinsurgency) to understand the disparate and violent responses of indigenous peasants to Shining Path.
Miguel La Serna
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835470
- eISBN:
- 9781469601915
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807882634_la_serna.11
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
The political violence in Ayacucho, Peru affected the lives of indigenous peasants in a number of ways. Those who originally supported Shining Path faced a daily threat of attacks by state ...
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The political violence in Ayacucho, Peru affected the lives of indigenous peasants in a number of ways. Those who originally supported Shining Path faced a daily threat of attacks by state counterinsurgency forces. In Chuschi and Quispillaccta, these forces carried out mass kidnappings and executions of indigenous peasants. In Huaychao, it was the guerrillas who massacred men, women, and children in retaliation for the community's counterinsurgency efforts. This chapter explores the implications of the armed conflict on Ayacucho's indigenous peasantry regarding authority and justice, gender, and the state and civil society.Less
The political violence in Ayacucho, Peru affected the lives of indigenous peasants in a number of ways. Those who originally supported Shining Path faced a daily threat of attacks by state counterinsurgency forces. In Chuschi and Quispillaccta, these forces carried out mass kidnappings and executions of indigenous peasants. In Huaychao, it was the guerrillas who massacred men, women, and children in retaliation for the community's counterinsurgency efforts. This chapter explores the implications of the armed conflict on Ayacucho's indigenous peasantry regarding authority and justice, gender, and the state and civil society.
