TRAVEL : QUIXO PERU : learning about peru
Recommended Books on Peru Anthropology & Sociology
Your Guide: Catherine Criolla
- Tambo: Life in an Andean Village
by Julia Meyerson, University of Texas Press. An artist writes about the year she spent with her anthropologist husband in an Andean village.
- Andean Lives: Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamán
is a wonderful and sad book about the lives of a poor Cuzqueño porter and his wife.
- The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism
by Hernando de Soto. A new version of great study of the development of the informal economy in Lima, including the phenomenon of invasiones by which many of the shanty towns or pueblos jovenes were formed. De Soto’s ideas were influential in the Fujimori government of the 1990’s.
