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Dragons in the Land of the Condor
"The book considers the influence of a Chinese ethnic background or lack thereof in the writing of several twentieth and twenty-first century Sino-Peruvian authors"--
The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America
Explores why indigenous movements have recently won elections for the first time in the history of Latin America.
Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America
When the Spanish colonized the Americas, they brought many cultural beliefs and practices with them, not the least of which involved death and dying. The essays in this volume explore the resulting intersections of cultures through recent scholarship related to death and dying in colonial Spanish America between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The authors address such important questions as: What were the relationships between the worlds of the living and the dead? How were these relationships sustained not just through religious dogma and rituals but also through everyday practices? How was unnatural death defined within different population strata? How did demographic and cultural ...
Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru
By the end of the eighteenth century, Peru had witnessed the decline of its once-thriving silver industry and had barely begun to recover from massive population losses due to smallpox and other diseases. At the time, it was widely believed that economic salvation was contingent upon increasing the labor force and maintaining as many healthy workers as possible. In Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru, Adam Warren presents a groundbreaking study of the primacy placed on medical care to generate population growth during this era. The Bourbon reforms of the eighteenth century shaped many of the political, economic, and social interests of Spain and its colonies. In Peru, local elites saw the...
Rien de ce qui est humain ne nous est étranger
Rien de ce qui est humain ne nous est étranger retrace la vie des grands-parents de Claudio Lomnitz, Misha et Noemi, deux jeunes Juifs de Bessarabie. L’un migre seul au Pérou en 1919. L’autre y part avec ses parents en 1921. Fondateurs de revues, imprégnés d’idéaux internationalistes, antiimpérialistes puis antifascistes, passionnés d’éducation populaire et d’ethnologie, attachés à l’émancipation des Juifs et des Indiens, fraternisant avec les Quechua, intimes du Gramsci latino-américain, José Carlos Mariategui, Misha et Noémi n’ont cessé de rechercher les moyens de faire advenir une civilisation universelle. Globe-trotters de l’émancipation, séjournant à Pa...
Piety and Danger
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Nuestra América
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS A riveting study of the intersections between Jewish and Latin American culture, this immigrant family memoir recounts history with psychological insight and the immediacy of a thriller. In Nuestra América, eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz traces his grandparents’ exile from Eastern Europe to South America. At the same time, the book is a pretext to explain and analyze the worldview, culture, and spirit of countries such as Peru, Colombia, and Chile, from the perspective of educated Jewish emigrants imbued with the hope and determination typical of those who escaped Europe in the 1920s. Lomnitz’s grandparent...
La nación subyacente
Una exploración profunda de la Independencia peruana a través de diez ensayos que desafían las nociones tradicionales de nación e identidad. Este libro reúne doce trabajos académicos sobre la independencia peruana escritos en los últimos quince años. Se trata de una recopilación de ensayos que analizan diversos aspectos que llevaron a la independencia y que a su vez la condicionaron. No se trata, sin embargo, de una narración cronológica de los principales eventos, esta colección agrupa, más bien, una serie de estudios que se preocupan por distintas problemáticas que aportan a la discusión del fenómeno de la independencia y que permiten una mejor comprensión de ella, abordan...
