Thomas F Love: Arequipa regional culture sku-55831296

The Independent Republic of Arequipa by Thomas F Love is a hardcover in Latin American History Books, listed as sku-55831296. Love draws on decades of ethnographic fieldwork to examine how regional identity developed in Arequipa, Peru's second-largest city, from the cultural boom following the War of the Pacific (1879–1884) through the mid-twentieth century.

He traces pre-Hispanic and colonial altiplano foundations, including pilgrimages to Marian shrines, and mid-nineteenth-century cross-class resistance to Lima's control of the post-Independence state. The book also covers debates over national and indigenous identity, Arequipa's early twentieth-century mestizo identity, and bull-on-bull fighting after World War II.

Love argues that much of what is treated as traditional local culture was shaped by urban, largely middle-class cultural entrepreneurs in response to Limeño power.