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Record Nr.

UNINA9910166653703321

Autore

Dueñas Alcira <1954->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colo. : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-60732-712-0

1-4571-1078-4

1-60732-019-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Disciplina

985/.01

Soggetti

Political culture - Peru - History

Social justice - Peru - History

Anti-imperialist movements - Peru - History

Learning and scholarship - Peru - History

Peruvian literature - Indian authors - History and criticism

Indian authors - Peru - History

Mestizos - Peru - Politics and government

Indians of South America - Peru - Politics and government

Electronic books.

Peru Intellectual life

Peru Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-258) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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