127th Annual Meeting (January 3-6, 2013): Geographies of Race in the Andes, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries

Conference on Latin American History 6

Thursday, January 3, 2013: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Ursuline Salon (Hotel Monteleone)

Chair:

Mark Carey, University of Oregon

Papers:

Climate, Race, and “Tropical Exceptionalism” in Early Colonial Peru
Heidi Scott, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Mountains and Bodies in the Andes
Jeremy Ravi Mumford, Brown University

From Indian to Highlander: On How Indios Became Serranos in Peru
Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi, University of California, Santa Barbara

Indigenista Geographies of Race in Peru, 1920–50
Alan Durston, York University

Comment:

Karen Spalding, University of Connecticut at Storrs