|
Fumerton, Mario Antonio
From victims to heroes: peasant counter-rebellion and civil war in Ayacucho, Peru, 1980-2000.
2002
Utrecht: Rozenberg Publishers, 2002, 369 pp.
sendero luminoso, huamanga, víctimas, terrorismo, testimonios, conflicto armado, perú, inglés
Resumen:
The field for this project was carried out in two trips. The first period
was in 1997 and lasted eight months. The second was in 2000, and was carried
out ever four months. Most of the 1997 trip was spent doing fieldwork in the
district of Tambo, although I took every opportunity to travel to as many other
areas of the department of Ayacucho as I could. In 2000 I spent the majority of
my time in Huamanga, the departmental capital, conducting participant
observation in the midst of an unfolding political crisis. I also used part of
that time for research in various libraries and governmental institutions in
Huamanga. The wide space of time between the two fieldwork periods permitted me
to place many of my early observations into a broader historical context of
process change. By spacing my fieldwork periods far apart, I have been able to
make use time´s passing in order to digest and to reflect on the material I had
gathered, thereby gaining a clearer understanding of the data that was not
possible at the time fieldwork was being done.
The material for this book
comes from three principal sources. First, from structured and semi-structured
interviews and impromptu discussions with common people, as well as with local
and regional decision makers. My informants included displaced peasants, some
of whom at the time were active militia members; local -and regional- level
militia commanders, both active and retired; peasant community authorities,
incumbent and retired mayors of Tambo, and the district governor in 1997.
|