The Lima Reader: History, Culture, Politics

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The Lima Reader

History, Culture, Politics

Edited by: Carlos Aguirre and Charles F. Walker

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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Covering more than 500 years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader seeks to capture the many worlds and many peoples of Peru’s capital city, featuring a selection of primary sources that consider the social tensions and cultural heritages of the “City of Kings.”

Author / Editor information

Carlos Aguirre is Professor of History at the University of Oregon and the author of The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850–1935, also published by Duke University Press.

Charles F. Walker is Professor of History, Director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, and MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair in International Human Rights at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath and Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780–1840, both also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

"A much-needed overview of the creation of this most important coastal city of the Andes. The Lima Reader presents a series of unpublished or not previously translated primary sources and excerpted literature that reveal the multiplicity of forces that converged to shape this contemporary metropolis. . . . An indispensable resource for the classroom and the road. The Lima Reader could greatly benefit the undergraduate survey class, provide critical information for the upper-level seminar, and be of assistance for the seasoned traveler seeking something much deeper than a generic tour guide."

-- Javier Puente Journal of Global South Studies

"Brings together an extraordinarily rich array of original sources. . . . The editors succeed admirably in selecting the best passages (and photographs) that can be found to represent the rich material and cultural tapestry that unfolds in the City of the Kings over the centuries."

-- Peter Klarén Latin American Research Review

"A welcome addition to Duke University Press’s by now well-established and well-regarded Latin American Readers series . . . The editors manage to transmit in periodized, chronological order and kaleidoscopic detail, the city’s beguiling complexity and mystique. . . . An excellent introduction to the city."

-- Barry Cannon Bulletin of Latin American Research

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Chronicle of Lima Antonio Cisneros Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I Pre-Hispanic, Conquest, and Early Colonial Lima
Pre-Hispanic Lima César Pacheco Vélez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	7
The Foundation of Lima Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	12
The Form and Greatness of Lima Bernabé Cobo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	16
Lima’s Convents José de la Riva-Agüero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
The Spiritual Diary of an Afro-Peruvian Mystic Ursula de Jesús Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
Auto-da-Fé and Procession Josephe Mugaburu and Francisco Mugaburu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
Margarita’s Wedding Dress Ricardo Palma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	32
II Bourbon Lima
Of the Inhabitants of Lima Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
The 1746 Earthquake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
A Failed Indian Uprising Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
Lima and Cuzco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	52
Slave Religion and Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	56
Faces of All Colors Hipólito Ruiz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
Impressions of Lima Alexander von Humboldt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	64
III From Independence to the War of the Pacific (1821–1883)
Lima in 1821 Basil Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
The Passion for Bullfighting William S. W. Ruschenberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
Pancho Fierro Natalia Majluf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	78
A Slave Plantation Flora Tristán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
The Saddest City Herman Melville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	84
Lima’s Carnival and Its Glories Manuel Atanasio Fuentes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
The Amancaes Parade Ismael Portal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	91
Chinese Are Not Welcome Mariano Castro Zaldívar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	94
The National Library and the Chilean Occupation E. W. Middendorf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	96
IV Modernizing Lima (1895–1940)
The Transformation of Lima after 1895 José Gálvez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	101
A Middle-Class House in 1900 Luis Alberto Sánchez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	108
The Growing Popular Taste for Soccer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	113
The Lord of the Miracles Procession José Carlos Mariátegui Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
Dance in the Cemetery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	122
On the Streetcar Martín Adán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	126
Leguía’s Lima Guillermo Rodríguez Mariátegui Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	128
The Paperboy Felipe Pinglo Alva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
Daily Life of a Domestic Servant Laura Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	136
V Interlude: Nostalgia and Its Discontents
The True Lima Chabuca Granda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
The Mislaid Nostalgia Sebastián Salazar Bondy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
One of the Ugliest Cities in the World? Alberto Flores Galindo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
Understanding Huachafería Mario Vargas Llosa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	156
VI The Many Limas (1940–)
Malambo, a Black Neighborhood Hugo Marquina Ríos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
The Original Mansion Alfredo Bryce Echenique Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	170
Diego Ferré and Miraflores Mario Vargas Llosa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	176
The Banquet Julio Ramón Ribeyro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	180
A Serrano Family in Lima Richard W. Patch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
The Great March of Villa El Salvador José María Salcedo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
Being Young and Radical (Late 1960s and 1970s) Maruja Martínez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	198
The Day Lima Erupted Enrique Zileri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
A City of Outsiders José Matos Mar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
The Israelites of the New Universal Covenant Peter Masson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
María Elena Moyano Robin Kirk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	216
The Tarata Street Bombing: July 16, 1992 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	219
Shining Path: A Prisoner’s Testimony Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	223
Twenty-First- Century Feudalism Wilfredo Ardito Vega Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
Chicha and Huayno: Andean Music and Culture in Lima Gisela Cánepa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	232
That Sickly Applause Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	236
Life among the Pirates Daniel Alarcón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	238
How Food Became Religion in Peru’s Capital City Marco Avilés Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
Green Vultures Charles F. Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	254
Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	257
Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269

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March 18, 2017

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9780822373186

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

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296

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67 illustrations, incl. 14 in color

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822373186

eBook ISBN: 9780822373186

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