Cornell University Library Digital Collections

Sendero Luminoso en Ayacucho

Collection:
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
Description:
This retablo, by Severo Yaranga, is about four feet high and three feet wide with four scenes. It shows Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, attacking peasants and a national guard post. It also shows military attacks and arrests.
Culture:
Quechua
Subject:
Retablos
Protest art
Dioramas
Folk art
Bibliography:
Isbell, Billie Jean. Violence in Peru: Performances and Dialogues. American Anthropologist 100:2 (1998): 283-292. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2195
Archival Collection:
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
Creation Site:
Lima (Peru)
Rights:
This digital collection and its contents are owned and operated by the Cornell University Library. Digital reproductions are provided for private study, scholarship, and research use only and may not be downloaded for use in electronic or print publications (including websites), exhibitions or broadcasts, without permission.
Identifier:
ISB_00933
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library (Ithaca, NY, USA)

About the collection

This collection of materials is derived from Professor Billie Jean Isbell's 40 years of research in the Andes, primarily in the southern Andean department of Ayacucho and specifically in the village of Chuschi, Peru, and the surrounding region of the River Pampas Valley. Included in this collection are approximately 1500 photographs, thirteen songs, Professor Isbell's ethnography, To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village, as well as selected publications.