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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) by Love, Thomas F. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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 p
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- Author
- Love, Thomas F.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781477313923
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, History, Anthropology
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