Coca's gone; of might and right in the Huallaga post-boom.

9780804759588

Coca's gone; of might and right in the Huallaga post-boom.

Kernaghan, Richard.

Stanford U. Press

2009

308 pages

$24.95

Paperback

HD9019

From the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, the Upper Huallaga Valley in Peru experienced an economic boom based on the illicit cocaine trade while simultaneously experiencing contestations for control between the Peruvian state and the Shining Path guerilla group. In this ethnography of the valley conducted in the wake of that boom, Kernaghan (sociology and anthropology, Fordham U. at Lincoln Center) particularly focuses on experiences and narratives of law and violence as they relate to processes of state formation.

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