Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" : Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru /

Alcira Dueñas.
Bok · Engelsk · 2010 · Electronic books.

Omfang	1 online resource (284 p.)
Utgave	1st ed.
Opplysninger	Description based upon print version of record.. - Foundations of seventeenth-century Andean scholarship -- Andean scholarship in the eighteenth century : writers, networks, and texts -- The European background of Andean scholarship -- Andean discourses of justice : the colonial judicial system under scrutiny -- The political culture of Andean elites : social inclusion and ethnic autonomy -- The politics of identity formation in colonial Andean scholarship.. - Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the ""Lettered City"" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the ""lettered city"" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial society. Scholars have long assumed that Spanish rule remained
Emner	Anti-imperialist movements - History. - Peru Indian authors - History. - Peru Indians of South America - Politics and government. - Peru Learning and scholarship - History. - Peru Vis mer... Mestizos - Politics and government. - Peru Peruvian literature - Indian authors - History and criticism. Political culture - History. - Peru Social justice - History. - Peru
Sjanger	Electronic books.
Geografisk emneord	Peru - Ethnic relations. . - Peru - Intellectual life.
Dewey	985/.01
ISBN	1-4571-1078-4. - 1-60732-019-3. - 1-60732-712-0