Mendoza Creating Our Own

Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8885-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten

Analyzes the key role that the production of "folkloric" music, dance, and drama has had in the formation of ethnic/racial identities, regionalism, and nationalism in Cuzco, Peru during the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mendoza, Zoila S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Gesellschaftstänze, Volkstänze

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Preface to the English Edition xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Revisiting Indigenismo and Folklore 1

1. The Misión Peruana de Arte Incaico and the Development of Artistic-Folkloric Production in Cuzco 17

2. The Rise of Cultural Institutions and Contests 35

3. Touristic Cuzco, Its Monuments, and Its Folkore 65

4. La Hora del Charango: The Cholo Feeling, Cuzqueñoness, and Peruvianness 93

5. Creative Effervescence and the Consolidation of Spaces for "Folklore" 125

Epilogue: Who Will Represent What Is Our Own? Some Paradoxes of Andean Folklore Both Inside and Outside Peru 169

Notes 183

Discography 219

Bibliography 221

Index 229

Über Autor(innen)

Zoila S. Mendoza is Professor of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Shaping Society through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes.