Intimate Enemies. Kimberly Theidon

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Theidon, Kimberly.

      Intimate enemies : violence and reconciliation in Peru / Kimberly Theidon. — 1st ed.

      p. cm. — (Pennsylvania studies in human rights)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-0-8122-4450-2 (hardcover : alk. paper)

      1. Postwar reconstruction—Social aspects—Peru—Ayacucho (Dept.) 2. Conflict management—Peru—Ayacucho (Dept.) 3. Political violence—Social aspects—Peru—Ayacucho (Dept.) 4. Political violence—Psychological aspects—Peru—Ayacucho (Dept.) 5. War victims—Mental health—Peru—Ayacucho (Dept.) 6. Ayacucho (Peru: Dept.)—Politics and government. I. Title. II. Series: Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

      HN350.A96T482 2013

      363.34'988098529—dc23

      2012022597

       Contents

       Preface: Ayacucho, 1997

       Part I. The Difficult Time

       1 “Ayacucho Is the Cradle”

       2 Sensuous Psychologies

       3 Being Human

       4 Fluid Fundamentalisms

       Part II. Common Sense, Gender, and War

       5 Speaking of Silences

       6 The Widows

       Part III. Looking North

       7 Intimate Enemies

       8 The Micropolitics of Reconciliation

       9 Deliverance

       10 Legacies: Bad Luck, Angry Gods, and the Stranger

       Part IV. Looking South

       11 Living with “Those People”

       12 Facing Up to the Past

       Afterword

       Notes

       Glossary

       Selected Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgments

      MAP 1. Peru.

      MAP 2. The Department of Ayacucho.

      Preface: Ayacucho, 1997

      THE BRIGHTLY COLORED speck in the distance kept coming closer without increasing much in size. I stood still with a large sack of kindling slung over my shoulder, not certain who it was. It was barely dusk, so I was less frightened than curious. People had assured me that the guerrillas only walked at night, as did the other frightening creatures I had been warned about. There were the jarjachas—human beings who had assumed the form of llamas as divine punishment for incest. There were the pishtacos—beings that suck the body fat out of the poor people who cross their paths. There were also the condenados—the condemned dead who are sentenced to an afterlife of wandering the earth and never finding peace. All of these beings derive pleasure from inflicting their vengeance on the living. But it was still dusk. I just wanted to know who the speck in the distance was.

      I finally heard a voice call out, but the wind carried the words СКАЧАТЬ