Susan Ellison is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wellesley College.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Uprising 31
1. Fix the State or Fix the People 37
2. Cultures of Peace, Cultures of Conflict 64
3. A Market for Mediators 95
A Brief Recess: Conciliating Conflict in Alto Lima 121
4. Between Compadres There Is No Interest 134
5. The Conflictual Social Life of an Industrial Sewing Machine 163
6. You Have to Comply with Paper 194
Conclusion 221
Notes 235
References 255
Index 275
Honorable Mention, 2018 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing
Winner of the Bryce Wood Book Award, presented the the Latin American Studies Association
Winner, 2019 Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) Book Award
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