Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" : Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru / / Alcira Dueñas.

• Author: Dueñas, Alcira, 1954-
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder, Colo. : : University Press of Colorado,, 2010.; ©2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the ""Lettered City"" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the ""lettered city"" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial society. Scholars have long assumed that Spanish rule remained

Table of Contents

Foundations of seventeenth-century Andean scholarship -- Andean scholarship in the eighteenth century : writers, networks, and texts -- The European background of Andean scholarship -- Andean discourses of justice : the colonial judicial system under scrutiny -- The political culture of Andean elites : social inclusion and ethnic autonomy -- The politics of identity formation in colonial Andean scholarship.