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Drawing on years of research in the highlands of Ayacucho, Kimberly Theidon explores how Peruvians are rebuilding individual lives and collective existence following twenty years of armed conflict. The micropolitics of reconciliation practiced there complicates the way we understand transitional justice and coexistence in the aftermath of war.
List of contents
Preface: Ayacucho, 1997
Part I. The Difficult Time
1 "Ayacucho Is the Cradle"
2 Sensuous Psychologies
3 Being Human
4 Fluid Fundamentalisms
Part II. Common Sense, Gender, and War
5 Speaking of Silences
6 The Widows
Part III. Looking North
7 Intimate Enemies
8 The Micropolitics of Reconciliation
9 Deliverance
10 Legacies: Bad Luck, Angry Gods, and the Stranger
Part IV. Looking South
11 Living with "Those People"
12 Facing Up to the Past
Afterword
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
About the author
Kimberly Theidon is John J. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University.
Summary
Drawing on years of research in the highlands of Ayacucho, Kimberly Theidon explores how Peruvians are rebuilding individual lives and collective existence following twenty years of armed conflict. The micropolitics of reconciliation practiced there complicates the way we understand transitional justice and coexistence in the aftermath of war.
