Livelihood and Resistance : Peasants and the Politics of Land in Peru

Smith, Gavin
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1989

"Though this study addresses general questions of how peasants make a living and how they engage in political resistance, it focuses on one group of people to make its argument : the people of Huasicancha."Gavin Smith

Mirages of Transition : the Peruvian Altiplano, 1780-1930

Jacobsen, Nils
 Berkeley :  University of California Press, 1993

"This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, combines economic and social analysis with cultural and institutional history. Nils Jacobsen challenges the prevailing view that the rural Andes underwent a successful transition to capitalism between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He argues that although the political, economic, and administrative structures of colonialism were gradually dismantled by the region's advancing market economy, colonial modes of constructing power and social identity have lingered on even to this day."Publisher's Description

Masks of the spirit : Image and Metaphor in Mesoamerica

Markman, Roberta H., and Peter T. Markman
Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1989

"Roberta Markman and Peter Markman perceive the Mesoamerican mask as a metaphor and agent of transformation, mirroring in its relationship with its wearer the unity of the "underlying life force and the natural world it forms and sustains." Examples of the mask's symbolism are drawn from pre-Columbian images of the rain god, modern folkways, and contemporary art."Publisher's Description