The Dead Body and the Fetish in Shining Path: The Case of Edith Lagos
Edith Lagos is one of the names that has managed to survive among the thousands of anonymous dead resulting from the armed conflict that Peru experienced between 1980 and 1992. She was an important member of that group of young people and women who participated in Sendero Luminoso from its beginnings, and who, like them, found in Marxism-Leninism, and in particular in the "Party," that "truth" which gave consistency to the gap between her cultural heritage — that is, the traditional Andean thinking of her parents — and the painful awareness of her discrimination within an urban-creole culture of which she was also a part. Published on March 29, 2006.