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Abstract

Edilberto Jiménez is not only a well-known Ayacucho altarpiece artist; he is also an anthropologist. Trained in anthropology at the National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga, Edilberto has conducted anthropological work since his years as host of a radio program and conducting interviews for an NGO on agrarian development in Ayacucho, to collecting testimonies for the Truth Commission. This book, comprised of 100 drawings, depicts Jiménez as an ethnographer who explores the Lima district of San Juan de Lurigancho, where he resides. He explores it with a critical eye, pausing to observe and record, through his drawings, what he saw on his walks through Casuarinas, Gran Chimú, Zárate, Las Flores, Mangomarca, Bayóvar, Arriba Perú, 15 de Junio, San Salvador, Jicamarca, Pedregal, among others. He also traveled to Ayacucho and returned to Chungui in the province of La Mar, where years before he had also made impressive drawings and altarpieces.