| Description |
xii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Paul H. Gelles -- Preliminary Note to the Original Edition / Ricardo Valderrama Fernandez and Carmen Escalante Gutierrez -- 1. Beginnings -- 2. Aeroplanes and Other Beasts -- 3. Military Tricks -- 4. Earth Mother, Cropkeeper, and the Three Brothers -- 5. The Barracks -- 6. "The Army Isn't Christian" -- 7. Inkas and Spaniards -- 8. Stories from Jail -- 9. Rosa, Josefa, and Miracle Shrines -- 10. Life With Asunta -- 11. The Factory -- 12. We Strappers -- 13. Running Away from the Hacienda -- 14. Eusebio -- 15. "I Stopped Bearing That Cross" -- 16. Life With Gregorio -- Postscript / Paul H. Gelles and Gabriela Martinez Escobar |
| Summary |
"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. http://www.loc.gov/hlas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index |
| Subject |
Condori Mamani, Gregorio, 1908-
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Quispe Huamán, Asunta.
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Poor -- Peru -- Cuzco -- Biography.
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Quechua Indians -- Biography.
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Quechua Indians -- Social conditions.
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Cuzco (Peru) -- Social conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Martínez, Gabriela, 1964-
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Gelles, Paul H., 1957-
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| LC no. |
95032444 |
| ISBN |
0292724918 (alk. paper) |
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0292724926 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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