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Author Love, Thomas F., author

Title The Independent Republic of Arequipa : making regional culture in the Andes / Thomas F. Love
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 321 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
Contents Introduction : nation, state, culture and region in Arequipa -- Prehispanic and colonial Arequipa : altiplano ties and religious pilgrimage as the popular foundations of regional identity -- From colony to the War of the Pacific : crises, nation building, and the development of arequipeño identity as regional -- Literary regionalism : browning, secularizing and ruralizing regional identity -- Picanteras and dairymen : quotidian citizenry -- Social genesis, cultural logic and bureaucratic field in the changing arequipeño social space
Summary Arequipa, Peru's second largest city, has the most intense regional culture in the central Andes. Arequipenos fiercely conceive of themselves as exceptional and distinctive, yet also broadly representative of the nation's overall hybrid nature-a blending of coast (modern, "white") and sierra (traditional, "indigenous"). The Independent Republic of Arequipa investigates why and how this regional identity developed in a boom of cultural production after the War of the Pacific (1879-1884) through the mid-twentieth century. Drawing on decades of ethnographic fieldwork, Thomas F. Love offers the first anthropological history of southwestern Peru's distinctive regional culture. He examines both its pre-Hispanic and colonial altiplano foundations (anchored in continuing pilgrimage to key Marian shrines) and the nature of its mid-nineteenth century "revolutionary" identity in cross-class resistance to Lima's autocratic control of nation-building in the post-Independence state. Love then examines Arequipa's early twentieth-century "mestizo" identity (an early and unusual case of "browning" of regional identity) in the context of raging debates about the "national question" and the "Indian problem," as well as the post-WWII development of extravagant displays of distinctive bull-on-bull fighting that now constitute the very performance of regional identity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-310) and index
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Subject Regionalism -- Peru -- Arequipa
Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Peru -- Arequipa
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Ethnicity -- Political aspects
Politics and government
Regionalism
SUBJECT Arequipa (Peru) -- History
Arequipa (Peru) -- Politics and government
Subject Peru -- Arequipa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781477314609
1477314601
9781477314616
147731461X