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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Burns, Kathryn, 1959- Colonial habits. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)636283025 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kathryn Burns |
| ISBN: | 0822322595 9780822322597 0822322919 9780822322917 |
| OCLC Number: | 39195254 |
| Description: | xi, 307 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Gender and the politics of Mestizaje -- 2. The dilemmas of dominio : reconciling poverty and property -- 3. Forasteras become Cuzqueñas -- 4. Reproducing colonial Cuzco -- 5. Producing colonial Cuzco -- 6. Breaking faith -- 7. Surviving republicanism |
| Responsibility: | Kathryn Burns. |
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"It is fascinating to revisit the history of Cuzco through the gates of the convent. Burns' clear, succinct prose, her gift for narrative, her eye for detail, and her engagement of larger issues of power, gender, and race make this an attractive book for a wide variety of readers." ([RR, PP, edited slightly] Brooke Larson, SUNY Stony Brook) Read more...
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