Imagining Modernity in the Andes [Hardcover]

Archibald's engaging and incisive commentary delves into the fascinating complexities of the indigenista movement in the Andes. J. M. Arguedas is central in her analysis, of course, yet she brings much more to the discussion: the practice of anthropological theory, the role of cultural agency in indigenous video production, and the political tensions of transnational urban contexts.Imagining Modernity in the Andes overcomes the narrowness of Arguedan studies to date by showing how Andean cultures have fundamentally shaped Latin America. It is an outstanding work and will undoubtedly prove to be a major contribution to Andean studies.This multidisciplinary work deals with literature, cultural discourse, and some aspects of the social sciences in relation to new configurations of indigenista studies in Peru....The author starts with an analysis of novelists and essayists of the 1920s, seen here as the Peruvian founding fathers of the indigenista movement, and concludes with a study of recent depictions of urbanization and filmmaking in the 1990s. The fictional and anthropological works of Jos? Mar?a Arguedas are central to this book, and Archibald examines them in conjunction with constructions of race, ethnicity, and political ideology. This informative overview complements major contributions to the field--Estelle Tarica's The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism (CH, Dec'08, 46-1959) and Jorge Coronado's The Andes Imagined (CH, Oct'09, 47-0744), both broad-based engagements with indigenismo. In terms of theory, all three titles are indebted to Benedict Anderson's seminal work on nationalism. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.?Imagining Modernity in the Andes deals with the intersection of projects of modernity and cultural representation in the Andes. The Peruvian novelist and anthropologist José María Arguedas occupies a privileged place in a study that charts the social, cultural, and intellectual transformations that took place l!