Destinies of the Quechua Culture in Peru The Outlook in Lima, Villa el Salvador, and Puquio
Rodrigo Montoya Rojas
Rodrigo Montoya Rojas
is a Peruvian
anthropologist and emeritus professor at the Universidad Nacional
Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru. Dr. Montoya Rojas is also
a visiting scholar on a regular basis at the University of California
San Diego. His most recent works include Voces de la Tierra:
Reflexiones sobre movimientos políticos indígenas en Bolivia,
Ecuador, México y Perú (Editor, 2008), De la utopía
andina al socialismo mágico: Antropología, Historia y Política
en el Perú (2006), Elogio de la Antropología (2005),
De la utopía andina al socialismo mágico. Antropología,
Historia y Política en el Perú (2005), and O mundo
de cabeça para baixo: relatos miticos dos Incas e de seus descendentes
(translated from Spanish, 2002).
In 1940, Lima had just over 600,000 inhabitants but by 1995 its population had increased to seven million, with groups of migrants arriving from all over Peru. Today, Lima is a metropolis of cultures and languages; in the wake of urban growth Lima has become –Andeanized.– Migration to the capital has provoked major cultural changes in the life of the city, but so has the massive presence of the Shining Path and its demands to create an –ethnic citizenship.–
… Rodrigo Montoya sets out to describe the integrated processes
of migration, culture, and change in order to unravel the meanings
of ethnicity, consumerism, generational relationships, and new musical
and theatrical expressions, while simultaneously challenging the
validity of the prevailing mestizo culture concept in Latin
America. He shows the manifold ways in which daily life and culture
are reproduced in a continuous and ongoing process of cultural appropriations
among and between historical actors.
