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Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991
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by Marisol De La Cadena

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In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate social hierarchies; instead, it redefined racial categories as cultural differences, such as differences in education or manners. In Indigenous Mestizos Marisol de la Cadena traces the history of the notion of race from this turn-of-the-century definition to a hegemony of racism in Peru.

De la Cadena's ethnographically and historically rich study examines how indigenous citizens of the city of Cuzco have been conceived by others as well as how they have viewed themselves and places these conceptions within the struggle for political identity and representation. Demonstrating that the terms Indian and mestizo are complex, ambivalent, and influenced by social, legal, and political changes, she provides close readings of everyday concepts such as marketplace identity, religious ritual, grassroots dance, and popular culture, as well as of such common terms as respect, decency, and education. She shows how Indian has come to mean an indigenous person without economic and educational means-one who is illiterate, impoverished, and rural. Mestizo, on the other hand, has come to refer to an urban, usually literate, and economically successful person claiming indigenous heritage and participating in indigenous cultural practices. De la Cadena argues that this version of de-Indianization-which, rather than assimilation, is a complex political negotiation for a dignified identity-does not cancel the economic and political equalities of racism in Peru, although it has made room for some people to reclaim a decolonized Andean cultural heritage.

This highly original synthesis of diverse theoretical arguments brought to bear on a series of case studies will be of interest to scholars of cultural anthropology, postcolonialism, race and ethnicity, gender studies, and history, in addition to Latin Americanists.

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In 1912, when a team of professors and students from the University of Cuzco conducted an unofficial census of their city, they found it difficult to assign the residents an "accurate" racial identity.

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"A magnificent study. This is a model of closely interwoven ethnographic and archival research, among the most significant contributions to contemporary Andean history and anthropology in many years."--Brooke Larson, State University of New York at Stony Brook

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  • Title Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991
  • Author Marisol De La Cadena
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Pages 424
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham
  • Publication date 2000-02-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780822324201 / 0822324202
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
  • Reading level 1500
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
  • Category Ethnic Issues
  • Library of Congress subjects Cuzco (Peru) - Social conditions, Mestizos - Peru - Cuzco - Social conditions
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99037470
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.098

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  • Choice, 11/01/2000, Page 589

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Marisol de la Cadena is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis.

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