The Peru reader : history, culture, politics / edited by Orin Starn, Carlos Iván Degregori, and Robin Kirk.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- A Note on Style -- Introduction -- The Chavin Cult -- Nazca Pottery -- The Huarochiri Manuscript -- Moon, Sun, Witches -- The Origins of the Incas -- Cloth, Textile, and the Inca Empire -- Taxation and the Incas -- Officials and Messengers -- Atahualpa and Pizarro -- In Defense of the Indians -- Our House -- The Tragedy of Success -- Diary of Colonial Lima -- Friar Martin's Mice -- The Rebellion of Tupac Amaru -- "All Must Die!" -- The Battle of Ayacucho -- Comas and the War of the Pacific -- Priests, Indians, Soldiers, and Heroes -- Women of Lima -- Amazonian Indians and the Rubber Boom -- Tempest in the Andes -- Water! -- Reflections -- Human Poems -- The APRA -- The Massacre of Chan Chan -- Lost to Sight -- The Pongo's Dream -- "The Master Will No Longer Feed Off Your Poverty" -- The 24th of June -- Villa El Salvador -- Recipe for a House -- Featherless Vultures -- Peru's African Rhythms -- A Guerrilla's Word -- Liberation Theology -- A World for Julius -- "A Frightening Thirst for Vengeance" -- We Are the Initiators -- The Quota -- Memories of a Cadre -- Oath of Loyalty -- Vietnam in the Andes -- Death Threat -- Women and Terror -- Chaqwa -- Huamanguino -- "There Have Been Threats" -- Peasants at War -- The Hold Life Has -- My Little Coca, Let Me Chew You! -- The Cocaine Economy -- Drugs, Soldiers, and Guerrillas -- Soup of the Day -- Nightwatch -- "A Momentous Decision" -- Choleric Outbreak -- Simply Pascuala -- Chayraq! -- The Choncholi Chewing Gum Rap -- Sarita Colonia Comes Flying -- Is Peru Turning Protestant? -- Interview with a Gay Activist -- Adrenaline Nights -- Reencounter -- I Am the Bad Girl of the Story -- Conversation in the Cathedral -- Aguaruna Adventures -- Self-Images -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Acknowledgment of Copyrights -- Index.