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ix Translators’ Pref ace The book you have be fore you is a trans la tion of the final work of a great Latin American pub lic in tel lec tual, the Pe ru vian anthro pol o gist Car los Iván De gre gori, who passed away as a re sult of can cer in 2011. The orig i nal Spanish-language ver sion was pub lished by the In sti tuto de Es tu dios Pe ru anos in 2010. Car los Iván was our dear friend. We ad mired him not only for his ideas and orig i nal ity but also for his warmth, sense of humor, gen er ous spirit, and ex cep tional el o quence. We have come to gether to trans late and edit this vol ume be cause Car los Iván’s writ ings on the inter nal armed con flict that con vulsed Peru dur ing the Shin ing Path era are of great value to an English-language read er ship. The En glish edi tion also serves to cel e brate the en dur ing value of his life and work for all con cerned with Latin Amer ica and with human rights. The En glish edi tion of this book has been re struc tured mod estly in an ef fort to max imize its util ity for a non-Peruvian au di ence. Steve J. Stern has taken the lead in the ed i to rial re struc tur ing, and he has writ ten an intro duc tion. Eric Hersh berg has man aged the ac cu racy of trans la tions, and the pro ject and team work pro cess that made this book pos sible. Each of us has under taken por tions of the trans la tion, and Judy Rein has re fined the trans la tions to as sure as much as pos sible that they speak in a sin gle voice, as close to Car los Iván’s orig i nal Span ish as we can achieve. We are grate ful to Jo-Marie Burt, Re becca Lich ten feld, and from the In sti tuto de Es tu dios Pe ru anos (In sti tute of Pe ru vian Stud ies, IEP), Rox ana Bar rantes, Ramón Pa juelo, and Rosa Vera, in ad di tion to the other many IEP col leagues who col lab o rated with and en gaged the work of Car los Iván over the years and are men tioned in his ac knowl edg ments to this book. We are also grate ful to the Uni ver sity of Wis con sin Press for its com mit ment to this pro ject, and par tic u larly to the sup port of Gwen Walker and Mat thew Cosby. x Tr a n s l a t o r s ’ P r e f a c e Copy ed it ing by Sheila McMa hon and the ed it ing team at UW Press has fur ther en riched the final prod uct. Ash ley Miller and Amanda Shel don as sisted with for mat ting of the man u script. We ded i cate the book to the mem ory of Car los Iván De gre gori. As sad as we are that he is no longer with us, we are heart ened by the con vic tion that his ideas and com mit ments will live on, in Peru and be yond. nancy ap pel baum joanna drze wie niecki hc tor flores eric hersh berg judy rein steve j. stern kim berly thei don T The chap ters in this book are re printed by per mis sion of the au thor, and were pre vi ously pub lished as fol lows: “The Years We Lived in Dan ger” and “How So cial Sci ences Failed” first ap peared in the 2010 Span ish edi tion of this book. “The Mat u ra tion of a Cos moc rat and the Con struc tion of a Com mu nity of Dis course” is the lat est re vised ver sion and a new trans la tion, based on the 2010 Span ish ver sion, of an essay that evolved over the years. An early ver sion first ap peared in Span ish in Que hacer 79 (Sep tem ber– Oc to ber 1992...