Joanne Rappaport

The Disappearing Mestizo

Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada

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Produktbeschreibung

Joanne Rappaport is Professor of Anthropology, and Spanish and Portuguese, at Georgetown University. She is the author of Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Dialogue in Colombia and coauthor (with Tom Cummins) of Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes, both also published by Duke University Press.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 857g
• ISBN-13: 9780822356295
• ISBN-10: 0822356295
• Artikelnr.: 38606110

Autorenporträt

Joanne Rappaport is Professor of Anthropology, and Spanish and Portuguese, at Georgetown University. She is the author of Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Dialogue in Colombia and coauthor (with Tom Cummins) of Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes, both also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Author's Note on Transcriptions, Translations, Archives, and Spanish Naming
Practices xiii
Introduction 1
1. Mischievous Lovers, Hidden Moors, and Cross-Dressers: Defining Race in
the Colonial Era
2. Mestizo Networks: Did "Mestizo" Constitute a Group?
3. Hiding in Plain Sight: Gendering Mestizos
4. Good Blood and Spanish Habits: The Making of a Mestizo Cacique
5. "Asi lo Paresçe por su Aspeto": Physiognomy and the Construction of
Difference in Colonial Santafé
6. The Problem of Caste
Conclusion
Appendix: Cast of Characters
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography