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Irene Silverblatt

Professor Emerita of Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Box 90091, Durham, NC 27708-0091
500 W 111th St, Apt 2B, New York, NY 10025

Scholarly Works - Book sections


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Book section · January 1, 2015 Cite

Haunting the Modern Andean State: Colonial Legacies of Race and Civilization

Book section · 2015 Contemporary Andean polities are haunted by colonial legacies. Looking at state-making from the off-centered view-point of emerging colonial institutions helps make sense of the trajectory of horrors and irrationalities – as well as idioms of political leg ... Cite

Acllacuna

Book section · 2015 Cite

Prologo

Book section · 2013 Cite

Forward

Book section · 2009 Cite

Modern Inquisitions

Book section · 2007 Featured Publication Cite

Political Disenfranchisement

Book section · 2004 Cite

Power and Memory in Latin America: The Uses of the Pre-Columbian Past

Book section · 2001 This essay, published in the proceedings of an international conference on archaeology and memory in light of the publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls, explores how conceptions of the pre-Columbian past have been used to support political agendas. It includ ... Cite

Definiciones de la Modernidad y Inquisiciones Modernas

Book section · 2001 This essay explores the way in which “modernity” has been defined in the English speaking world and asks how that definition has excluded the participation of Spain and the Spanish colonies. I trace this process back to the 16th century and the propoganda ... Cite

The Inca’s Witches: Gender and the Cultural Work of Colonization in Seventeenth Century Peru

Book section · 2000 Inquisitors considered "witches" to be a colonial plague. This essay explores the history of the charges made agsinst these women and, in the process, uncovers patterns linking discourses of gender and race to political ideologies. Accused witches, nearly ... Cite

Cristianos nuevos y miedos a proposito del Nuevo Mundo en el Peru del siglo xvii

Book section Edición critica de Esperanza Lopez Parada y Maria Ortiz ... Cite