156 Pages
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Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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Viewing a variety of narratives through the lens of inebriation imagery, this book explores how such imagery emerges in colonial Peru as articulator of notions of the self and difference, resulting in a new social hierarchy and exploitation. Reading Inebriation evaluates the discursive and geo-political relevance of representations of drinking and drunkenness in the crucial period for the... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction Colonial Difference and Cultural Encounters; Chapter 1a Inebriation Imagery in Dictionaries, Poetry, and the Law; Chapter 2 Docility and Notions of Taverns, Rituals, and Religion; Chapter 3 Drinking Archives; Chapter 4 Of Places, Indigenous Women, and Priests: A Criticism of Colonialism;
Biography
Mónica P. Morales is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona, USA.
A Yankee Book Peddler UK Core Title for 2012 'With this book, Mónica P. Morales describes a colonial imaginary of inebriation, citing extensively from Spanish chroniclers, Spanish officials, and Spanish law ... Mónica P. Morales reads widely to provide a rich theological and historical analysis of Andean inebriation that supplements previous studies of moral transgressions...' Renaissance Quarterly 'Morales's book is an important and detailed study of discourses and colonial ideologies in early colonial Peru.' Sixteenth Century Journal
