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

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 ""...

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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.
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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.