Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru

摘要

Intimate Enemies is the long-awaited extended revision of Kimberly Theidon's Entre prójimos: el conflicto armado interno y la política de la reconciliación en el Perú (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1st edition 2004, 2nd edition 2009). A decade or so has given Theidon time to consolidate some of her initial dunking around post-conflict Andean Peru and to expand the study significantly thanks to additional fieldwork material. Intimate Enemies is a tour de force: it seamlessly blends a profound analysis of extensive conversations, interviews and observations conducted over a period of more than 15 years in some villages and towns in the department of Ayacucho, the 'cradle' of Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path, SL), with the existing comparative literature on transitional justice, collective violence and medical anthropology. This research is presented through the lens of Theidon's personal experience of being an 'engaged anthropologist'.