Peasants on the Edge: Crop, Cult, and Crisis in the Andes

by William P. Mitchell

Book Overview

Throughout Latin America and the rest of the Third World, profound social problems are growing in response to burgeoning populations and unstable economic and political systems. In Peru, terrorist acts by the Shining Path guerilla movement are the most visible manifestation of social discontent, but rapid economic and religious changes have touched the lives of almost everyone, radically altering traditional lifeways. In this twenty-year study...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292721455
• ISBN13: 9780292721456
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"