Indigenous Mestizos : The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1...

by Marisol De La Cadena

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Indigenous Mestizos : The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1, Paperback by Cadena, Marisol De LA; Mignolo, Walter D. (EDT); Silverblatt, Irene (EDT); Sald & iacute;var-hull, Sonia (EDT), ISBN 0822324202, ISBN-13 9780822324201, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate social hierarchies; instead, it redefined racial categories as cultural differences, such as differences in education or manners. In Indigenous Mestizos Marisol de la Cadena traces the history of the notion of race from this turn-of-the-century definition to a hegemony of racism in Peru. De la Cadena’s ethnographically and historically rich study examines how indigenous citizens of the city of Cuzco have been conceived by others as well as how they have viewed themselves and places these conceptions within the struggle for political identity and representation. Demonstrating that the terms Indian and mestizo are complex, ambivalent, and influenced by social, legal, and political changes, she provides close readings of everyday concepts such as marketplace identity, religious ritual, grassroots dance, and popular culture, as well as of such common terms as respect , decency , and education . She shows how Indian has come to mean an indigenous person without economic and educational means—one who is illiterate, impoveri

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Year: 1919
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780822324201
• Condition: Fine

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