War of Shadows: The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon
- ISBN-10
- 0520074483
- ISBN-13
- 9780520074484
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Authors
- Eduardo Fernández, Michael F Brown
Description
'War of Shadows' is the haunting story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon - told largely by people who were there. Anthropologists Brown and Fernández write about an Amazonian people whose contacts with outsiders have repeatedly begun in hope and ended in tragedy.
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