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On February 14, 1800, someone slipped an anonymous letter to the solicitor general of Lima’s high court via one of his domestic servants. When he opened it, the solicitor (fiscal)…
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On February 14, 1800, someone slipped an anonymous letter to the solicitor general of Lima’s high court via one of his domestic servants. When he opened it, the solicitor (fiscal)…
Read MoreMar 24, 2022 | Book Reviews, Book Talk, Upstairs, Downstairs
Sonorous Worlds is anthropologist Yana Stainova’s memoir (not her term) of her experiences while researching music among marginalized communities in…
Read MoreMar 24, 2022 | Middle Class: Identity and Challenges, Upstairs, Downstairs
English + Español
Any academic who reaches a certain age can attest to having lived through at least one or two revolutions within their disciplines. Work can be divided into a before and an after, signalled…
Mar 24, 2022 | Middle Class: Identity and Challenges, Upstairs, Downstairs
English + Español
I remember reading in high school the play by Florencio Sánchez, “M’hijo, el dotor” [My son, the doctor], the story of a peasant’s son who studies at the university and becomes…
Jan 27, 2022 | COVID January 2022
I first met Marvyn Perez in 1988 when I was teaching English in Mexico. I was having dinner at the home of Guatemalan exiles, fellow instructors at the university in Puebla. Marvyn…
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