Reading Inebriation in Early Colonial Peru
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Andean Chronicler
Andean cultural history
Andean Culture
Andean Peoples
Author_Monica P. Morales
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Colonial Difference
colonial discourse analysis
Colonial Inn
Colonial Latin American Literature
Colonial Spaniards
Common Language
Corn Beer
De La Cogolla
De La Vandera
early modern Peruvian identity construction
El Diablo
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Exclusionary Properties
Garcilaso De La Vega
Gonzalo De Berceo
Good Life
Hispanic colonial studies
Historia Sumaria
Inca Garcilaso De La Vega
indigenous resistance narratives
Indigenous Women
Lima Council
Paul III
Philip III
Pope Gregory The Great
ritual drinking practices
social hierarchy formation
Spanish Culture
Tupac Inka Yupanqui
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- ISBN 9781409443339
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Nov 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Viewing a variety of narratives through the lens of inebriation imagery, this book explores how such imagery emerges in colonial Peru as articulator of notions of the self and difference, resulting in a new social hierarchy and exploitation. Reading Inebriation evaluates the discursive and geo-political relevance of representations of drinking and drunkenness in the crucial period for the consolidation of colonial power in the Viceroyalty of Peru, and the resisting rhetoric of a Hispanicized native Andean writer interested in changing stereotypes, fighting inequality, and promoting tolerance at imperial level in one of the main centers of Spanish colonial economic activity in the Americas. In recognizing and addressing this imagery, Mónica Morales restores an element of colonial discourse that hitherto has been overlooked in the critical readings dealing with the history of sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Andes. She presents drinking as the metaphorical site where Western culture and the New World collide and define themselves on the grounds of differing drinking rituals and ideas of moderation and excess. Narratives such as dictionaries, legal documents, conversion manuals, historical writings, literary accounts, and chronicles frame her context of analysis.
Mónica P. Morales is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona, USA.
