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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790912103321

Autore

Burns Kathryn <1959->

Titolo

Colonial habits : convents and the spiritual economy of Cuzco, Peru / / Kathryn Burns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, NC : , : Duke University Press, , 1999

ISBN

0-8223-9619-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) : illustrations, 1 map

Disciplina

985/.37

Soggetti

Convents - Social aspects - Peru - Cuzco - History

Convents - Economic aspects - Peru - Cuzco - History

Women - Peru - Cuzco - Social conditions

Mestizos - Peru - Cuzco - History

Social structure - Peru - Cuzco - History

Cuzco (Peru) Social life and customs

Cuzco (Peru) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-296) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Gender and the politics of Mestizaje -- 2. The dilemmas of dominio : reconciling poverty and property -- 3. Forasteras become Cuzqueñas -- 4. Reproducing colonial Cuzco -- 5. Producing colonial Cuzco -- 6. Breaking faith -- 7. Surviving republicanism

Sommario/riassunto

In Colonial Habits Kathryn Burns transforms our view of nuns as marginal recluses, making them central actors on the colonial stage. Beginning with the 1558 founding of South America’s first convent, Burns shows that nuns in Cuzco played a vital part in subjugating Incas, creating a creole elite, and reproducing an Andean colonial order in which economic and spiritual interests were inextricably fused.Based on unprecedented archival research, Colonial Habits demonstrates how nuns became leading guarantors of their city’s social order by making loans, managing property, containing “unruly” women, and raising girls. Coining the phrase “spiritual economy” to analyze the intricate investments and relationships that enabled Cuzco’s convents and their backers to thrive, Burns explains how, by the late 1700s, this economy had faltered badly, making convents an emblem of decay and a focal



point for intense criticism of a failing colonial regime. By the nineteenth century, the nuns had retreated from their previous roles, marginalized in the construction of a new republican order.Providing insight that can be extended well outside the Andes to the relationships articulated by convents across much of Europe, the Americas, and beyond, Colonial Habits will engage those interested in early modern economics, Latin American studies, women in religion, and the history of gender, class, and race.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791239503321

Autore

Friedland Andrew J. <1959->

Titolo

Writing successful science proposals [[electronic resource] /] / Andrew J. Friedland and Carol L. Folt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-50142-9

9786612501425

0-300-18139-6

0-300-13325-1

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Classificazione

AK 30000

Altri autori (Persone)

FoltCarol L. <1951->

Disciplina

001.4/4

Soggetti

Proposal writing in research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Getting started -- Authorship from start to finish -- Basic organization and effective communication -- Developing your conceptual framework and significance statement -- A title may be more important than you think -- The project summary guides the reader -- Objectives, hypotheses, and specific aims : an exhaustive list is exhausting -- Lay the foundation in the introduction -- Experimental design and methods : what will you actually do? -- Plan for expected and unexpected results -- The timeline is a reality check -- References in detail : how many and how recent? -- Preparing a budget -- Submitting and tracking your proposal -- The three R's : rethink, revise, and resubmit -- Consider private foundations for funding of innovative research -- Team science



for tackling complex problems -- Ethics and research.

Sommario/riassunto

This fully revised edition of the most authoritative guide to science proposal writing is essential for any scientist embarking on a thesis or grant application. Completely updated and with entirely new chapters on private foundation funding and interdisciplinary research, the book explains each step of the proposal process in detail.  Praise for the first edition:"This exceptionally useful and affordable handbook will serve as a refresher to seasoned writers and as a guide and source of encouragement for first-time authors."-C. L. Sagers, Ecology "This inexpensive book could prove to be your best investment of the year."-Bioscience