Description
Book SynopsisThis anthropological history traces the development of a distinctive regional culture in Peru's second largest city, which constitutes one of the earliest central Andean examples of the emergence of a broadly mestizo identity.
Trade Review"[S]pecialists interested in the central Andes will find Love's book rewarding…The book ranges widely rather than focusing narrowly on Arequipan regionalism and subnational identites, and thus contains information that will attract readers interested in other aspects of southern Peru." * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *
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The Independent Republic of Arequipa] is ambitious not only in its chronological scope, stretching back to pre-Columbian times, but also in its interdisciplinary approach that combines history and anthropology...Love has provided a rich picture of a regional culture, from different perspectives. His work will hopefully inspire more scholarship on both Arequipa and other regionalist discourses." * Journal of Latin American Studies *
Table of Contents
- Maps, Tables, and Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Nation, State, Culture, and Region in Arequipa
- 2. Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Arequipa: Altiplano Ties and Religious Pilgrimage as the Popular Foundations of Regional Identity
- 3. From Colony to the War of the Pacific: Crises, Nation Building, and the Development of Arequipeño Identity as Regional
- 4. Literary Regionalism: Browning, Secularizing, and Ruralizing Regional Identity
- 5. Picanteras and Dairymen: Quotidian Citizenry
- 6. Social Genesis, Cultural Logic, and Bureaucratic Field in the Changing Arequipeño Social Space
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
