Daniel Heyduk

Huayrapampa Daniel Heyduk

An anthropologist studies a remote region of Bolivia's Andes mountains in the years following that country's revolutionary 1950's land reform. He finds a land economically, socially and culturally divided and an isolated community that preserves a way of life hundreds of years old. In this new edition of the pioneering book, the author adds his own original photographs. Daniel Heyduk roamed through the Bolivian countryside, probed its feudal hacienda landholding system, and lived among Quechua-speaking people to learn their ways. In the remote valley of Huayrapampa he shared their world of dangerous supernatural forces, strange diseases, and witchcraft.