Indigenous Mestizos
Subtitle: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991 (Latin America Otherwise)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780822323853; 9780822324201
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Indigenous peoples; Social & cultural anthropology; Social history; South America - History; 20th century; Latin America - South America; Race And Ethnic Relations; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Political History; Sociology; Peru; Mestizos; Ethnic Studies - General; Anthropology/Ethnography; History, Latin American; Latin American Studies; Discrimination & Racism; Racism; Social conditions; Cuzco; Indians of South America; Mixed descent
First sentence: In 1912, when a team of professors and students from the University of Cuzco conducted an unofficial census of their city, they found it difficult to assign the residents an "accurate" racial identity.