At a time when political democratization and the operations of democracy in Latin America are being called in question, there is to be found at the local level in the Andes a heritage of civic community. This paper discusses one case where that heritage has led to the development of a novel and...

This is the story of struggle for survival in the Andes. Ravaged by the excesses of Nature, a brutal insurgent conflict and more recently by the inroads of economic globalization, the inhabitants of the Peruvian sierra face the prospect of ever-increasing poverty and the withering away of their...