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"In this book, William C. Meadows presents an in-depth ethnohistorical survey of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche military societies, drawn from extensive interviews with tribal elders and military society members, unpublished archival sources, and linguistic data. He examines their structure, functions, rituals, and martial symbols, showing how they fit within larger tribal organizations. And he explores how military societies, like powwows, have become a distinct public format for cultural and ethnic continuity."--Jacket

"Detailed, fieldwork-based analysis of Shining Path and its defeat in the Ayacucho region. Highlights the importance of guerrilla insensitivity to local realities and resulting peasant alienation, as well as the crucial role of local organized responses by peasant self-defense groups and evangelical Protestant churches. Major contribution"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57