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Using the influential and controversial Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology consider anthropology's past, document the current state of the field, and outline its future possibilities.

AbstractWe have had much excited talk about experimental ethnography and new genres of writing. Much of it acknowledges the difficulties of putting words to page. But few of the many reflections and meditations about ethnography really delve into the self‐destroying anxiety and misery that can accompany writing in anthropology and across the humanities. That many of us—from graduate students to tenured professors—have suffered bad, sometimes career‐ending trouble with writing is a public secret. I draw on my own struggle with writing and depression to try to make some sense of why desperation and worse related to writing are so relatively commonplace in anthropology today—and whether there's anything we can do about it.

AbstractThis article examines the history and ideology of the Communist Party of Peru-Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso). The rebels claim to embody a distinctively Peruvian Marxism. However, a close examination of the party betrays a conspicuous indifference to Peruvian culture and traditions. The distinctiveness of this largest and most diverse of the Andean nations disappears in the orthodoxy of a universal Marxism, in this respect placing the Shining Path within the long legacy of the imperial inscription of Latin American history into the preconceived categories and linear narratives of Western philosophy and science.

Traces development and ideology of the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) movement and examines the leadership of Abimael Guzmán, emphasizing the party's disconnection from the culture and history of Peru.

Hace dos anos el historiador Nelson Manrique aseguro que la lucha por la sierra central era "la batalla decisiva" en el Peru. En un nuevo e inusual capitulo de los once anos de guerra, la fragil alianza entre las fuerzas armadas y la mayoria del campesinado ha puesto a Sendero a la defensiva en el Mantaro