Andean lives : Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamán /

"Autobiographies first published in Cusco during the late 1970s in the original language. Sensitive and elegant translation, with detailed annotations, makes these life stories accessible to English-speaking readers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Condori Mamani, Gregorio, 1908-
Other Authors: Gelles, Paul H., 1957-, Martínez, Gabriela, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Quechua
Español
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1996.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Condori Mamani, Gregorio, > 1908-
Quispe Huamán, Asunta.
Quispe Huamán, Asunta
Quechua Indians > Biography.
Quechua Indians > Social conditions.
Poor > Peru > Cuzco > Biography.
Quechua > Biographies.
Quechua > Conditions sociales.
Pauvres > Pérou > Cuzco > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Poor
Quechua Indians
Quechua Indians > Social conditions
Social conditions
Quechua (Indiens) > Conditions sociales.
Quechua (Indiens) > Biographies.
Cuzco (Peru) > Social conditions.
Peru > Cuzco
Cuzco (Pérou) > Conditions sociales.
Biographies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Paul H. Gelles
  • Preliminary note to the original edition / Ricardo Valderrama Fernandez and Carmen Escalente Gutierrez
  • Gregorio Condori Mamani
  • Beginnings
  • Aeroplanes and other beasts
  • Military tricks
  • Earth mother, cropkeeper, and the three brothers
  • The Barracks
  • "The army isn't Christian"
  • Inkas and Spaniards
  • Rosa, Josefa, and miracle shrines
  • Life with Asunta
  • The Factory
  • We strappers
  • Asunta Quispe Huaman
  • Running away from the hacienda
  • Eusebio
  • "I stopped bearing that cross"
  • Life with Gregorio
  • Postscript / Paul H. Gelles and Gabriela Martinez Escobar
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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