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Session 8 – Criollismo and mestizaje in the Andean World (16th and 17th centuries)
Key questions:
2. Do these terms have the same meaning in Lima as in the Andean highlands?
3. How does Graubart analyze the creolization of the New World? Does she consider its
4. What about the ambiguity of “criollo subjets” in colonial Peru? What does that mean?
6. Who was the Jesuit Father Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzmán? How can we read his Carta
Key Readings:
1. Karen B. Graubart, “The Creolization of the New World: Local Forms of Identification
in Urban Colonial World, 1560-1640”. Hispanic American Historical Review, 89:3,
2009, pp. 471-499.
2. Alexandre Coello & Paulina Numhauser, “Criollismo y mestizaje en el mundo andino
(siglos XVI-XVIII)”. Illes i Imperis, 14, 2012, pp. 13-48.
3. Juan Pablo Viscardo, Carta a los españoles americanos, Mexico: Fondo de Cultura
Económica, 2004, pp. 70-94.
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