{"id":18723,"date":"2011-12-03T23:59:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T23:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18723"},"modified":"2011-12-04T02:34:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T02:34:02","slug":"professor-alcira-duenas-illuminating-the-andes-indigenous-and-mestizo-intellectuals-in-colonial-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18723","title":{"rendered":"Professor Alcira Due\u00f1as: Illuminating the Andes: Indigenous and Mestizo Intellectuals in Colonial Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Alcira Due\u00f1as: Illuminating the Andes: Indigenous and Mestizo Intellectuals in Colonial Peru<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00bfQu\u00e9 Pasa, OSU?<\/a>
\nOhio State University
\nAutumn 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael J. Alarid<\/strong><\/p>\n

A citizen of Colombia, Professor Alcira Due\u00f1as<\/a> is a historian who conducts research on the cultural and intellectual history of Amerindians and other subordinated groups of the Peruvian Andes during the colonial era. Professor Due\u00f1as earned her Bachelor of Arts from Universidad de Bogot\u00e1, Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Economics, and her Master of Art and Doctorate in History from The Ohio State University, where she focused on the history of Latin America. For more than twenty years, professor Due\u00f1as has taught courses on Colonial and Modern Latin America, Women’s history of Latin America, and modern World History. Professor Due\u00f1as has had a distinguished career: she is a Fulbright scholar, recipient of the OSU Graduate School Alumni Research Award, and, along with a group of faculty of color from the History Department, she has recently been honored with the Distinguished University Diversity Enhancement Award from the University Senate, as well as with an equivalent distinction from the College of Humanities. …<\/p>\n

…Professor Due\u00f1as continues to feel indebted to OSU for her intellectual flowering, and through her OSU education she has infused an interdisciplinary approach into her historical methodology as well. Her first book, which hits shelves in the spring of 2010<\/a>, utilizes tools of literary criticism and ethnohistory to highlight the presence and practices of indigenous and mestizo intellectuals in colonial Peru. She develops a textual analysis of Andean manifestos, memoriales (petitions), reports, and letters to identify the rhetorical strategies these intellectuals utilized to reach out to the royal powers. Due\u00f1as explains, \u201cI place such analysis in the historical context of the major critical conjunctures of Spanish colonialism in the Andes, particularly the insurrections that intersected with some of the writings under study. I apply anthropological methods, as I examine issues of identity, religion, and Andean political culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Due\u00f1as\u2019 creative approach to research has resulted in her manuscript being picked up by a major academic press; the book is complete and in production with the University Press of Colorado. Her book reconstructs the history of indigenous and mestizo intellectuals in mid and late colonial Peru, illuminating the writing practices and social agency of Andeans in their quest for social change. Due\u00f1as elucidates, \u201cI conclude that Andean scholarship from mid-and-late colonial Peru reflects the cultural changes of the colonized ethnic elites at the outset of modernity in Latin America. Their intellectual and political struggles reveal them as autonomous subjects, moving forward to undo their colonial condition of “Indians,” while expanding the intellectual sphere of colonial Peru to educated ‘Indios ladinos.’ They used writing, Transatlantic traveling, legal action, and even subtle support to rebellions, as means to improve their social standing and foster their ethnic autonomy under Spanish rule.\u201d Due\u00f1as concludes, \u201cThey attempted to participate in the administration of justice for Indians and seized every opportunity to occupy positions in the ecclesiastical and state bureaucracy.\u201d…<\/p>\n

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Professor Alcira Due\u00f1as: Illuminating the Andes: Indigenous and Mestizo Intellectuals in Colonial Peru \u00bfQu\u00e9 Pasa, OSU? Ohio State University Autumn 2009 Michael J. Alarid A citizen of Colombia, Professor Alcira Due\u00f1as is a historian who conducts research on the cultural and intellectual history of Amerindians and other subordinated groups of the Peruvian Andes during the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,1245,2895,21,459,8,20,25],"tags":[8526,8521,8519,4248,674,8520],"class_list":["post-18723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-biography","category-campus-life","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-alcira-duenas","tag-michael-alarid","tag-michael-j-alarid","tag-ohio-state-university","tag-peru","tag-que-pasa-osu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}