The Independent Republic of Arequipa : making regional culture in the Andes /
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"...
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| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
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Table of 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.