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The Independent Republic of Arequipa: Making Regional Culture in the Andes (Joe R. and Teresa Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture) Kindle Edition
Arequipa, Peru’s second largest city, has the most intense regional culture in the central Andes. Arequipeños fiercely conceive of themselves as exceptional and distinctive, yet also broadly representative of the nation’s overall hybrid nature—a blending of coast (modern, “white”) and sierra (traditional, “indigenous”). The Independent Republic of Arequipa investigates why and how this regional identity developed in a boom of cultural production after the War of the Pacific (1879–1884) through the mid-twentieth century.
Drawing on decades of ethnographic fieldwork, Thomas F. Love offers the first anthropological history of southwestern Peru’s distinctive regional culture. He examines both its pre-Hispanic and colonial altiplano foundations (anchored in continuing pilgrimage to key Marian shrines) and the nature of its mid-nineteenth century “revolutionary” identity in cross-class resistance to Lima’s autocratic control of nation-building in the post-Independence state. Love then examines Arequipa’s early twentieth-century “mestizo” identity (an early and unusual case of “browning” of regional identity) in the context of raging debates about the “national question” and the “Indian problem,” as well as the post-WWII development of extravagant displays of distinctive bull-on-bull fighting that now constitute the very performance of regional identity. Love’s research reveals that Arequipa’s “traditional” local culture, symbolically marked by populist, secular, and rural elements, was in fact a project of urban-based, largely middle-class cultural entrepreneurs, invented to counter continuing Limeño autocratic power, marked by nostalgia, and anxious about the inclusion of the nation’s indigenous majority as full modern citizens.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity of Texas Press
- Publication dateNovember 29, 2017
- File size9914 KB
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"[S]pecialists interested in the central Andes will find Love's book rewarding…The book ranges widely rather than focusing narrowly on Arequipan regionalism and subnational identites, and thus contains information that will attract readers interested in other aspects of southern Peru." ― European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Published On: 2018-12-03
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About the Author
THOMAS F. LOVE is a professor of anthropology at Linfield College. He coedited Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies and State, Capital, and Rural Society: Anthropological Perspectives on Political Economy in Mexico and the Andes.
Product details
- ASIN : B071S1NZHT
- Publisher : University of Texas Press (November 29, 2017)
- Publication date : November 29, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 9914 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 344 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1477314598
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,354,316 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #155 in History of Peru
- #529 in Peru History
- #3,144 in History of Anthropology
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