Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World

Irene Silverblatt

Published by Duke University Press 2004

Modern Inquisitions

Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World

Irene Silverblatt
Edited by: Walter D. Mignolo and Sonia Saldívar-Hull

In the series A John Hope Franklin Center Book

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822386230

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About this book

Explores the profound cultural transformations triggered by Spain's efforts to colonize the Andean region, and demonstrates the continuing influence of the Inquisition to the present day.

Author / Editor information

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).

Reviews

“Modern Inquisitions is a superb inquiry into the obscured American origins of modernity. With exceptional lucidity and judicious indignation, Irene Silverblatt persuasively argues that the Spanish Inquisition in colonial Peru was a modern institution that intimately intertwined race-thinking and bureaucratic rationality. By illuminating the subterranean currents shaping the modern world, this outstanding book renders the violent civilizing hierarchies they have carved at once more comprehensible and more intolerable.”—Fernando Coronil, author of The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela

“Modern Inquisitions is an extraordinary work of research and interpretation. Based on painstaking archival research in the Lima Inquisition records, it makes crucial contributions to the debates about race, state-formation, and colonialism.”—Barbara Weinstein, author of For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920–1964

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
About the Series Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Prologue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Three Accused Heretics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Inquisition as Bureaucracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Mysteries of State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Globalization and Guinea Pigs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
States and Stains Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
New Christians and NewWorld Fears Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
The Inca’sWitches Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Becoming Indian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Appendix: Notes on Bias and Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
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Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 316
Illustrations
- Other: 13 illus.

eBook

Published: October 29, 2004
ISBN: 9780822386230