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Peru's Modernizing State Paradigms

The anthropologist David Nugent has produced another theoretically sophisticated and lengthy reflection on the Peruvian state. Although the prose is slightly obscure and entangled at certain points, the central argument of the book is both intriguing and thought-provoking. What happens when states become delusional and paranoid? How do states react to their inability to coerce and compel? When and why do state routines cease to exist? Nugent raises and answers these questions while claiming to center his book on one of the least studied episodes of twentieth-century Peruvian history, one of the most important political subjects of the last century, and one of the most under-researched provinces of the country. Nugent focuses on the military dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría (1948–56), the history of the underground trajectory of the APRA party, and Chachapoyas. This book is the result of transecting a robust theoretical and conceptual framework with a captivating empirical case study that should be equally interesting for scholars of Peru and the state.