Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes by Orin Starn

Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes

Latin America Otherwise

Orin Starn

344 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru's rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds) grew into an entire system of peasant justice an...

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