The Independent Republic of Arequipa : making regional culture in the Andes / Thomas F. Love.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Love, Thomas F., author.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Political aspects.

Regionalism.

Arequipa (Peru)--History.

Arequipa (Peru).

Regionalism--Peru--Arequipa.

Arequipa (Peru)--Politics and government.

Ethnicity--Political aspects--Peru--Arequipa.

Ethnicity.

Politics and government.

Peru--Arequipa.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 321 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781477313923

1477313923

9781477314593

1477314598

OCLC:

971130605