Pre-Hispanic, conquest, and early Colonial Lima -- Pre-Hispanic Lima / Cesar Pacheco Velez -- The foundation of Lima / Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca -- The form and greatness of Lima / Bernabe Cobo -- Lima's convents / Jose de la Riva-Aguero -- The spiritual diary of an Afro-Peruvian mystic / Ursula de Jesus -- Auto-da-fe and procession / Josephe and Francisco Mugaburu -- Margarita's wedding dress / Ricardo Palma -- Bourbon Lima -- Of the inhabitants of Lima / Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa -- The 1746 earthquake / Anonymous -- A failed Indian uprising / Anonymous -- Lima and Cuzco / Concolorcorvo -- Slave religion and culture / Hesperiophylo -- Faces of all colors / Hipolito Ruiz -- Impressions of Lima / Alexander von Humboldt -- From independence to the War of the Pacific (1821-1884) -- Lima in 1821 / Basil Hall -- The passion for bullfighting / William S.W. Ruschenberger -- Pancho Fierro / Natalia Majluf -- A slave plantation / Flora Tristan -- The saddest city / Herman Melville -- Lima's carnival and its glories / Manuel Atanasio Fuentes -- The Amancaes parade / Ismael Portal -- Chinese are not welcome / Mariano Castro Zaldivar -- The national library and the Chilean occupation / E.W. Middendorf -- Modernizing Lima (1895-1940) -- The transformation of Lima after 1895 / Jose Galvez -- A middle-class house in 1900 / Luis Alberto Sanchez -- The growing popular taste for soccer / El Comercio -- The Lord of the Miracles procession / Jose Carlos Mariategui -- Dance in the cemetery / El Tiempo -- On the streetcar / Martin Adan -- Leguia's Lima / Guillermo Rodriguez Mariategui -- The paperboy / Felipe Pinglo Alva -- Daily life of a domestic servant / Laura Miller -- Interlude: nostalgia and its discontents -- The true Lima / Chabuca Granda -- The mislaid nostalgia / Sebastian Salazar Bondy -- Of the ugliest cities in the world? / Alberto Flores Galindo -- Understanding Huachaferia / Mario Vargas Llosa -- The many Limas (1940') -- Malambo, a black neighborhood / Hugo Marquina Rios -- The original mansion / Alfredo Bryce Echenique -- Diego Ferre and Miraflores / Mario Vargas Llosa -- The banquet / Julio Ramon Ribeyro -- A Serrano family in Lima / Richard W. Patch -- The great march of Villa el Salvador / Jose Maria Salcedo -- Being young and radical (late 1960s and 1970s) / Maruja Martinez -- The day Lima erupted / Enrique Zileri Gibson -- A city of outsiders / Jose Matos Mar -- The Israelites of the new universal covenant / Peter Masson -- Maria Elena Moyano / Robin Kirk -- The Tarata Street bombing: July 16, 1992 / Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- Shining path: a prisoner's testimony / Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- Twenty-first-century feudalism / Wilfredo Ardito Vega -- Chicha and Huayno: Andean music and culture in Lima / Gisela Canepa -- That sickly applause / 'El cholo Juan' -- Life among the pirates / Daniel Alarcon -- How food became religion in Peru's capital city / Marco Aviles -- Green vultures / Charles F. Walker.
Summary:
Covering more than five hundred years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader captures the multiple viewpoints of the diverse peoples of Peru's capital city. The volume traces Lima's transformation from a pre-Columbian religious center, to the colonial "City of Kings," to today's vibrant and deeply divided metropolis of almost ten million people. A rich array of primary sources-including traveler accounts, essays, photographs, maps, poems, short stories, lyrics, and memoir excerpts, many appearing in English for the first time-address how Lima's multiethnic population, class inequalities, and debates of who is a "true" limeno/a have evolved throughout the city's history. The book also includes selections that explore Lima's identity through its food, sports culture, festivals, and sense of humor. Intended for travelers, students, and scholars alike, The Lima Reader is an invaluable introduction to the complex social tensions and cultural history of Lima and its people.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.