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Jos Mara Arguedas (19111969) is one of the most important authors to speak to issues of the survival of native cultures. Jos Mara Reconsiderations for Latin American Cultural Studies presents his views from multiple perspectives for English-speaking audiences for the first time. The life and works of Jos Mara Arguedas reflect in a seminal way the drama of acculturation and transculturation suffered not only by what we think of as the indigenous and mestizo cultures of Peru, but by other Latin American societies as well. Intricately reflecting his pluricultural and bilingual life experience, Arguedass illuminating poetic visions of Andean culture cross multidisciplinary borders to transfigure pedagogical and social practices. Few texts convey the complexity and contradictions of an Andean cosmopolitanism with the intense accuracy of Arguedass anthropological, ethnographic essays and literary writings. The ramifications of Arguedass cultural critiques have yet to be assessed, particularly as a response to the disruptive forces of modernity, acculturation, and essential identity. Jos Mara Arguedas was a Peruvian ethnographer, anthropologist, folklorist, poet, and novelist. He based hi

Author

Ciro A. Sandoval, Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval, Monica Barnes

Publisher

Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780896802001

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24