Reading and Identity in Peruvian Local Libraries

For around twenty years, peasant communities of Peru have had access to reading materials thanks to a network of rural libraries, both flexible and well structured, created to combat illiteracy caused by a lack of practice, and which is rooted in a perspective of continuing education driven by the librarians and voluntary peasant coordinators. It has developed a complete set of collective practices in which the idea of cultural identity is fundamental: reading groups, the publication of Andean tradition in an Enciclopedia campesina.
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