The Lima Reader

The Lima Reader

History, Culture, Politics

  • Author: Aguirre, Carlos; Walker, Charles F.
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Serie: The Latin America Readers
  • ISBN: 9780822363378
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822373186
  • Place of publication:  Durham , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2017
  • Month: March
  • Pages: 296
  • Language: English
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.”
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I: Pre-Hispanic, Conquest, and Early Colonial Lima
    • Pre-Hispanic Lima, César Pacheco Vélez
    • The Foundation of Lima, Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca
    • The Form and Greatness of Lima, Bernabé Cobo
    • Lima’s Convents, José de la Riva-Agüero
    • The Spiritual Diary of an Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesús
    • Auto-da-Fé and Procession, Josephe and Francisco Mugaburu
    • Margarita’s Wedding Dress, Ricardo Palma
  • II: Bourbon Lima
    • Of the Inhabitants of Lima, Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa
    • The 1746 Earthquake, Anonymous
    • A Failed Indian Uprising, Anonymous
    • Lima and Cuzco, Concolorcorvo
    • Slave Religion and Culture, Hesperióphylo
    • Faces of All Colors, Hipólito Ruiz
    • Impressions of Lima, Alexander von Humboldt
  • III: From Independence to the War of the Pacific (1821–1883)
    • Lima in 1821, Basil Hall
    • The Passion for Bullfighting, William S. W. Ruschenberger
    • Pancho Fierro, Natalia Majluf
    • A Slave Plantation, Flora Tristán
    • The Saddest City, Herman Melville
    • Lima’s Carnival and Its Glories, Manuel Atanasio Fuentes
    • The Amancaes Parade, Ismael Portal
    • Chinese Are Not Welcome, Mariano Castro Zaldívar
    • The National Library and the Chilean Occupation, E. W. Middendorf
  • IV: Modernizing Lima (1895–1940)
    • The Transformation of Lima after 1895, José Gálvez
    • A Middle-Class House in 1900, Luis Alberto Sánchez
    • The Growing Popular Taste for Soccer, El Comercio
    • The Lord of the Miracles Procession, José Carlos Mariátegui
    • Dance in the Cemetery, El Tiempo
    • On the Streetcar, Martín Adán
    • Leguía’s Lima, Guillermo Rodríguez Mariátegui
    • The Paperboy, Felipe Pinglo Alva
    • Daily Life of a Domestic Servant, Laura Miller
  • V: Interlude: Nostalgia and Its Discontents
    • The True Lima, Chabuca Granda
    • Color Plates
    • The Mislaid Nostalgia, Sebastián Salazar Bondy
    • One of the Ugliest Cities in the World?, Alberto Flores Galindo
    • Understanding Huachafería, Mario Vargas Llosa
  • VI: The Many Limas (1940–)
    • Malambo, a Black Neighborhood, Hugo Marquina Ríos
    • The Original Mansion, Alfredo Bryce Echenique
    • Diego Ferré and Miraflores, Mario Vargas Llosa
    • The Banquet, Julio Ramón Ribeyro
    • A Serrano Family in Lima, Richard W. Patch
    • The Great March of Villa El Salvador, José María Salcedo
    • Being Young and Radical (Late 1960s and 1970s), Maruja Martínez
    • The Day Lima Erupted, Enrique Zileri
    • A City of Outsiders, José Matos Mar
    • The Israelites of the New Universal Covenant, Peter Masson
    • María Elena Moyano, Robin Kirk
    • The Tarata Street Bombing: July 16, 1992, Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
    • Shining Path: A Prisoner’s Testimony, Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
    • Twenty-First-Century Feudalism, Wilfredo Ardito Vega
    • Chicha and Huayno: Andean Music and Culture in Lima, Gisela Cánepa
    • That Sickly Applause, “El cholo Juan"
    • Life among the Pirates, Daniel Alarcón
    • How Food Became Religion in Peru’s Capital City, Marco Avilés
    • Green Vultures, Charles F. Walker
  • Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing
  • Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources
  • Index
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    • I
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    • M
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