Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes

by Orin Starn

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Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru's rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds) grew into an entire system of peasant justice and one of the most significant Andean social movements of the late twentieth century. Nightwatch is the first full-length ethnography and the only study in English to examine this grassroots...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822323214

ISBN13:9780822323211

Release Date:May 1999

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:344 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Comparative Politics Government History Latin America Legal Theory & Systems Non-US Legal Systems Peru Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Sociology South America

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