Scholars@Duke
Irene Silverblatt

Irene Silverblatt

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

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Stained Blood in the Old World and the New: New Christians and the Racial Categories of the Colonial-Modern World

Journal article Critical Research on Religion · 2014 Symposium, “Jewish Identification and Critical Theory: The Political Significance of Conceptual Categories" ... Cite

Confronting Nationalisms, Cosmopolitan Visions, and the Politics of Memory: Aesthetics of Reconciliation and Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger in Western Ukraine

Journal article Dissidences · 2012 Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, an eighteen year old, German-speaking poet, died in an SS labor camp in 1942. She left behind a hand-written album of 57 poems that miraculously survived the War. Selma was from Czernowitz (at the time, Cernauti, Romania and today ... Cite

Heresies and colonial geopolitics

Journal article Romanic Review · January 1, 2012 Cite

Chasteté et pureté des liens sociaux dans le Pérou du XVIIe siècle

Journal article Cahiers Du Genre · December 1, 2011 Full text Cite

Colonial conspiracies

Journal article Ethnohistory · March 1, 2006 Using records from the Lima office of the Spanish Inquisition, this article explores the cultural politics of Spanish colonialism in the Andes. Spain's imperial enterprise was rooted in the construction of new social beings at the core of modernity: (1) th ... Full text Cite

New Christians and new world fears in seventeenth-century Peru

Journal article Comparative Studies in Society and History · January 1, 2000 Spanish colonialism brought the Inquisition to the Viceroyalty of Peru in 1569, and from the end of the sixteenth century until Peru declared independence from Spain in 1820, Spanish Inquisitors prosecuted men and women for clandestinely practicing Jewish ... Full text Cite

The secret history of gender: Women, men, and power in late Colonial Mexico.

Journal article COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIETY AND HISTORY · April 1, 1999 Link to item Cite

Honor, Sex, and Civilizing in the Making of Seventeenth Century Peru

Journal article Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society · 1997 Cite

Women in States

Journal article Annual Review of Anthropology · October 1988 Full text Cite

Imperial Dilemmas, the Politics of Kinship, and Inca Reconstructions of History

Journal article Comparative Studies in Society and History · January 1, 1988 Full text Cite

The evolution of witchcraft and the meaning of healing in colonial Andean society.

Journal article Culture, medicine and psychiatry · December 1983 This paper explores the ways in which traditional beliefs of Andean peoples regarding health and sickness were transformed by the process of Spanish colonization. It also examines how the colonial context devolved new meanings and powers on native curers. ... Full text Cite