... Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Absolutism, and Lima What man can remain steady when the mountains tremble? If the earth shakes, what will hearts do?—ANONYMOUS, El Día de Lima, 61 Dogs, hunched next to cadavers and with their eyes to the sky, gave such...

... Balls of Fire: Premonitions and the Destruction of Lima A few nights before this disastrous event, signs of fire appeared in the sky above this City, but it wasn’t enough to amend its depraved customs. —FRIAR PEDRO MONT, quoted in Joan Papió...

... Contending Notions of Lima: Obstacles to Urban Reform in the Aftermath Five fter the initial measures taken to assure adequate A supplies of food and water and to restore social control, Viceroy Manso de Velasco and city...

... “All These Indian and Black People Bear Us No Good Will”: The Lima and Huarochirí Rebellions of 1750 [Lima] is a bloody city, woe to this bloody city, which boasts by spilling the blood of many people and all of...

... Part I Material and Immaterial Embodiment 1 Rosa de Lima and the Imitatio Morum · · · Iridescent butterflies circling around her; fragrant flowers, plants, and trees blooming and...

... 2 Reading the Body Mystical Theology and Spiritual Actualization in Early Seventeenth-Century Lima · · · The first line of Genesis, “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God...

... Part II The Relational Self 4 Carrying the Cross of Christ Donadas in Seventeenth-Century Lima · · · The Lord walks among the pots and pans.  — Teresa de Ávila...

...   Chapter Twenty-seven   Europe and Latin America in José Lezama Lima Maarten van Delden A Tale of Two Continents The relationship between Latin America and Europe is a constant theme in the Latin American (and Latin Americanist) intellectual...

...   Chapter Twenty-eight   Seeking a Cuba of the Self: Baroque Dialogues   between José Lezama Lima and Wallace Stevens Christopher Winks In her collection of essays, Barroco y modernidad, the Brazilian critic Irlemar Chiampi proclaims that modern...

... ∂ Incommensurable Worlds of Practice and Value A View from the Shantytowns of Lima jeanine anderson The measurement of poverty and the framing of inequality constitute one more site for the exercise of oppression against...

...DIARY OF COLONIAL LIMA Josephe de Mugaburu y Honton Lima was named the ‘‘City of Kings’’ for the Magi, since it was founded by Pizarro on Epiphany in 1535. But for Spanish soldier Josephe de Mugaburu y Honton, who filled his seventeenth-century diary with balconied palaces, bullfights, and...

... LXI About how Governor Don Francisco Pizarro founded a city in the]auja Valley, which is the one that was later moved to the Lima Valley, and about the death ofthe Inca and other things that happened Pizarro, as was said...

... + PART THREE Obliterating Third Paths: The Battles of Lima and Puno + INTRODUCTION TO PART THREE + The rebirth of willful local communities, endowed with capaci• ties of self-organization and political direction that rendered them some• thing other than mere...

... When Francisco Pizarro founded Lima in January 1535, he imagined a city that with its imposing churches, rigid straight lines, and division of power would symbolize Spanish domination of the Incas and South America. He created an enduring symbol of Spanish rule but ultimately a city very...

.... Lima was seen as an epitome of “decadence,” with its vain upper classes, exuberant public life, lax social codes, belligerent lower classes, and deep racial mixing. The Bourbons’ efforts to tighten control of Lima and the rest of Peru, however, prompted criticism and various forms of resistance and...