Creating Our Own: Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru

by Zoila S. Mendoza

In Creating Our Own , anthropologist Zoila S. Mendoza explores the early-twentieth-century development of the "folkloric arts"--particularly music, dance, and drama--in Cuzco, Peru, revealing the central role that these expressive practices played in shaping ethnic and regional identities. Mendoza argues that the folkloric productions emerging in Cuzco in the early twentieth century were integral to, rather than only a reflection of, the social and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822341301
• ISBN13: 9780822341307
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"