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The Lima reader : history, culture, politics / Carlos Aguirre and Charles F. Walker, editors.
LIBRA F3601.2 .L563 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Latin America readers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lima (Peru)--Civilization.
- Lima (Peru).
- Lima (Peru)--Social life and customs.
- Lima (Peru)--History.
- Civilization.
- Manners and customs.
- Peru--Lima.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Covering more than five hundred years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader captures the multiple viewpoints of the diverse peoples of Peru's capital city. The volume traces Lima's transformation from a pre-Columbian religious center, to the colonial "City of Kings," to today's vibrant and deeply divided metropolis of almost ten million people. A rich array of primary sources-including traveler accounts, essays, photographs, maps, poems, short stories, lyrics, and memoir excerpts, many appearing in English for the first time-address how Lima's multiethnic population, class inequalities, and debates of who is a "true" limeno/a have evolved throughout the city's history. The book also includes selections that explore Lima's identity through its food, sports culture, festivals, and sense of humor. Intended for travelers, students, and scholars alike, The Lima Reader is an invaluable introduction to the complex social tensions and cultural history of Lima and its people.
- Contents:
- Pre-Hispanic, conquest, and early Colonial Lima
- Pre-Hispanic Lima / César Pacheco Vélez
- The foundation of Lima / Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca
- The form and greatness of Lima / Bernabé Cobo
- Lima's convents / José de la Riva-Aguero
- The spiritual diary of an Afro-Peruvian mystic / Ursula de Jesús
- Auto-da-fé and processión / Josephe and Francisco Mugaburu
- Margarita's wedding dress / Ricardo Palma
- Bourbon Lima
- Of the inhabitants of Lima / Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa
- The 1746 earthquake / Anonymous
- A failed Indian uprising / Anonymous
- Lima and Cuzco / Concolorcorvo
- Slave religion and culture / Hesperióphylo
- Faces of all colors / Hipólito Ruiz
- Impressions of Lima / Alexander von Humboldt
- From independence to the War of the Pacific (1821-1884)
- Lima in 1821 / Basil Hall
- The passion for bullfighting / William S.W. Ruschenberger
- Pancho Fierro / Natalia Majluf
- A slave plantation / Flora Tristán
- The saddest city / Herman Melville
- Lima's carnival and its glories / Manuel Atanasio Fuentes
- The Amancaes parade / Ismael Portal
- Chinese are not welcome / Mariano Castro Zaldívar
- The national library and the Chilean occupation / E.W. Middendorf
- Modernizing Lima (1895-1940)
- The transformation of Lima after 1895 / José Gálvez
- A middle-class house in 1900 / Luis Alberto Sánchez
- The growing popular taste for soccer / El Comercio
- The Lord of the Miracles procession / José Carlos Mariátegui
- Dance in the cemetery / El Tiempo
- On the streetcar / Martín Adán
- Leguía's Lima / Guillermo Rodríguez Mariátegui
- The paperboy / Felipe Pinglo Alva
- Daily life of a domestic servant / Laura Miller
- Interlude: nostalgia and its discontents
- The true Lima / Chabuca Granda
- The mislaid nostalgia / Sebastián Salazar Bondy
- Of the ugliest cities in the world? / Alberto Flores Galindo
- Understanding Huachafería / Mario Vargas Llosa
- The many Limas (1940')
- Malambo, a black neighborhood / Hugo Marquina Rí́os
- The original mansion / Alfredo Bryce Echenique
- Diego Ferre and Miraflores / Mario Vargas Llosa
- The banquet / Julio Ramón Ribeyro
- A Serrano family in Lima / Richard W. Patch
- The great march of Villa el Salvador / José María Salcedo
- Being young and radical (late 1960s and 1970s) / Maruja Martínez
- The day Lima erupted / Enrique Zileri Gibson
- A city of outsiders / José Matos Mar
- The Israelites of the new universal covenant / Peter Masson
- María Elena Moyano / Robin Kirk
- The Tarata Street bombing: July 16, 1992 / Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Shining path: a prisoner's testimony / Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Twenty-first-century feudalism / Wilfredo Ardito Vega
- Chicha and Huayno: Andean music and culture in Lima / Gisela Cánepa
- That sickly applause / 'El cholo Juan'
- Life among the pirates / Daniel Alarcón
- How food became religion in Peru's capital city / Marco Avilés
- Green vultures / Charles F. Walker.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lima reader.
- ISBN:
- 9780822363378
- 0822363372
- 9780822363484
- 0822363488
- OCLC:
- 953985372
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