Dance in the Cemetery

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. Acknowledgments xv
4. Chronicle of Lima xvii
5. Introduction 1
6. I Pre-Hispanic, Conquest, and Early Colonial Lima
7. Pre-Hispanic Lima 7
8. The Foundation of Lima 12
9. The Form and Greatness of Lima 16
10. Lima’s Convents 21
11. The Spiritual Diary of an Afro-Peruvian Mystic 25
12. Auto-da-Fé and Procession 29
13. Margarita’s Wedding Dress 32
14. II Bourbon Lima
15. Of the Inhabitants of Lima 37
16. The 1746 Earthquake 45
17. A Failed Indian Uprising 49
18. Lima and Cuzco 52
19. Slave Religion and Culture 56
20. Faces of All Colors 61
21. Impressions of Lima 64
22. III From Independence to the War of the Pacific (1821–1883)
23. Lima in 1821 67
24. The Passion for Bullfighting 73
25. Pancho Fierro 78
26. A Slave Plantation 81
27. The Saddest City 84
28. Lima’s Carnival and Its Glories 87
29. The Amancaes Parade 91
30. Chinese Are Not Welcome 94
31. The National Library and the Chilean Occupation 96
32. IV Modernizing Lima (1895–1940)
33. The Transformation of Lima after 1895 101
34. A Middle-Class House in 1900 108
35. The Growing Popular Taste for Soccer 113
36. The Lord of the Miracles Procession 115
37. Dance in the Cemetery 122
38. On the Streetcar 126
39. Leguía’s Lima 128
40. The Paperboy 133
41. Daily Life of a Domestic Servant 136
42. V Interlude: Nostalgia and Its Discontents
43. The True Lima 143
44. The Mislaid Nostalgia 149
45. One of the Ugliest Cities in the World? 153
46. Understanding Huachafería 156
47. VI The Many Limas (1940–)
48. Malambo, a Black Neighborhood 161
49. The Original Mansion 170
50. Diego Ferré and Miraflores 176
51. The Banquet 180
52. A Serrano Family in Lima 185
53. The Great March of Villa El Salvador 193
54. Being Young and Radical (Late 1960s and 1970s) 198
55. The Day Lima Erupted 203
56. A City of Outsiders 207
57. The Israelites of the New Universal Covenant 213
58. María Elena Moyano 216
59. The Tarata Street Bombing: July 16, 1992 219
60. Shining Path: A Prisoner’s Testimony 223
61. Twenty-First- Century Feudalism 229
62. Chicha and Huayno: Andean Music and Culture in Lima 232
63. That Sickly Applause 236
64. Life among the Pirates 238
65. How Food Became Religion in Peru’s Capital City 247
66. Green Vultures 254
67. Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing 257
68. Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 263
69. Index 269