Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World (Latin America Otherwise)
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2004
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- Title
- Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World (Latin America Otherwise)
- Author
- Silverblatt, Irene
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
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- 0822334178
- ISBN 13
- 9780822334170
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- 570 grams
Drawing on extensive research in Peruvian and Spanish archives, Silverblatt uses church records, evangelizing sermons, and missionary guides to explore how the emerging modern world was built, experienced, and understood by colonists, native peoples, and Inquisition officials: Early missionaries preached about world history and about the races and nations that inhabited the globe; Inquisitors, able bureaucrats, defined who was a legitimate Spaniard as they executed heretics for “reasons of state”; the “stained blood” of Indians, blacks, and descendants of Jews and Moors was said to cause their deficient character; and native Peruvians began to call themselves Indian.
In dialogue with Arendt and other theorists of modernity, Silverblatt shows that the modern world’s underside is tied to its origins in colonialism and to its capacity to rationalize violence. Modern Inquisitions forces the reader to confront the idea that the Inquisition was not only a product of the modern world of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but party to the creation of the civilized world we know today.
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Irene Silverblatt is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. She is the author of Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru. She is past president of the American Society for Ethnohistory (2001–02).
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