Finding Cholita

AvBillie Jean Isbell

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Engelska, 2010

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Finding Cholita is fictionalized ethnography of the Ayacucho region of Peru covering a thirty-year period from the 1970s to today. It is a story of human tragedy resulting from the region''s long history of discrimination, class oppression, and then the rise and fall of the communist organization Shining Path. The story''s narrator, American anthropologist Dr. Alice Woodsley, attempts to locate her goddaughter, Cholita, who is known to have joined Shining Path and to have murdered her biological father, who fathered her through rape. Searching for Cholita, Woodsley devotes herself to documenting the stories of the countless Andean peasant women who were raped by soldiers, often going beyond witnessing as she helps the women relieve the pain of their sexual horror.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-10-01
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252091551
Förlag:University of Illinois Press

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Billie Jean Isbell is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Cornell University. She is the author of To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village and the multimedia websites Vicos: A Virtual Tour and The Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection.

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Received the honorable mention award for the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 2009.— the Society for Humanistic Anthropology

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsPrologue: Why Turn to Fiction?Acknowledgments1. Under the Banquet Table2. The Search Begins3. Memories of Lima4. Larco Herrera5. The Autopsy6. An Encounter with the State7. The Prisons8. The Rosetti Nose9. Romulo's Letter10. The Dust of the Ancestors11. Through the Puma Door12. The Convocatorio13. The Cure14. Finding CholitaGlossarySuggested Readings and Resources