The Murder of a Pawnbroker and the Gentlemen's Duel.
This article takes a microhistorical look at the underside of Afro-Peruvian culture to analyze the cultural and political intersection of plebeian and elite spheres. It examines two sensational crimes involving Afro-Peruvians that captured the zeitgeist of early twentieth-century Lima. The first inv...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Latin American Popular Culture Vol. 42; pp. 124 - 145 |
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University of Texas Press
2024
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