World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

Afro-Peruvians

Hooker, J., ‘Indigenous inclusion, black exclusion: race, ethnicity and multicultural citizenship in contemporary Latin America', Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 2005.

Luciano, J. and Rodriguez Pastor, H., ‘Peru', in MRG (ed.), No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latin Americans Today, London, MRG, 1995.

Reid Andrews, G., Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004.

World Bank, ‘Indigenous and Afro-Peruvian development project', 2000, URL: www.wds.worldbank.org

Ashaninka

Green, S., ‘Getting over the Andes: the geo-eco-politics of indigenous movements in Peru's twenty-first-century Inca empire', Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 38, no. 2, 2006.

Rainforest Foundation, NGO-based in the UK [has helpful information about the Ashanika in the Amazonian region; tells readers about the problems they face such as road building and illegal logging] http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/

The Forest Peoples Programme, NGO based in the Netherlands and the UK [raises awareness about indigenous communities in the Amazon that have chosen to live in inaccessible areas] http://www.forestpeoples.org/

Aymara and Highland Quechua

García, M.E., ‘The politics of community: education, indigenous rights and ethnic mobilisation in Peru', Latin American Perspectives, vol. 30, no. 1, 2003.

Green, S., ‘Incas, Indios and indigenism in Peru', NACLA Report on the Americas, vol. 38, no. 4, 2005.

Remy, I.M., ‘The indigenous population and the construction of democracy in Peru', in D.L. Van Cott (ed.), Indigenous Peoples and Democracy in Latin America, London, Macmillan, 1994.

Comunidad Tawantinsuyu NGO [has useful information about traditional medicine practices among indigenous communities in Peru] http://www.comunidadtawantinsuyu.org/

Portal Cultural de la Región Andina [tells readers about recent news, events and different indigenous organizations in Latin America] http://www.quechuanetwork.org/

General

Allen, C.J., The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community, Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1988.

Federación Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, Alternative Information to Peru's Report sumbitted to the Committee for the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination, March 1999.

Leyton, M. and Patrinos, H.A., ‘Estimating the number of indigenous peoples in Latin America', in G. Hall and H.A. Patrinos (eds), Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Development in Latin America, New York, Palgrave, 2006.

Peru Support Group, Mining and Development in Peru with Special Reference to the Rio Blanco Project, edited by A. Bebbington, M. Connarty, W. Coxshall, H. O'Shaughnessy and M. Williams, London, 2007.

Poole, D. and Renique, G., Peru: Time of Fear, London, Latin America Bureau, 1992.

Starn, O., Degregori, C.I. and Kirk, R. (eds), The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics, London, Latin America Bureau, 1996.

Takenyaka, A., ‘The Japanese in Peru: history of immigration, settlement and racialisation', Latin American Perspectives, vol. 31, no. 3, 2004.

Van Cott, D.L., ‘ "It is not a priority": the failure to form viable ethnic parties in Peru', in D.L. Van Cott (ed.), From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Politics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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