Billie Jean Isbell
Finding Cholita.
University of Illinois Press, 2009. Interpretations of Culture in the New Millenium. First printing. 9780252076060 xiv/206 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", has remnant of white price sticker in lower inside corner of rear cover. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. 
""Finding Cholita" is fictionalized ethnography of the Ayacucho region of Peru covering a thirty-year period from the 1970s to today. It is a story of human tragedy resulting from the region's long history of discrimination, class oppression, and then the rise and fall of the communist organization Shining Path. The story's narrator, American anthropologist Dr. Alice Woodsley, attempts to locate her goddaughter, Cholita, who is known to have joined Shining Path and to have murdered her biological father, who fathered her through rape. Searching for Cholita, Woodsley devotes herself to documenting the stories of the countless Andean peasant women who were raped by soldiers, often going beyond witnessing as she helps the women relieve the pain of their sexual horror."