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Pandemic Potosí: Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety a Colonial Mining Metropolis

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Pandemic Potosí: Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety a Colonial Mining Metropolis
Pandemic Potosí: Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety a Colonial Mining Metropolis

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Pandemic Potosí: Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety a Colonial Mining Metropolis

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features the single longest narrative of this nearly forgotten period, penned by local historian Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, along with shorter treatments of the disease’s ravages in Cuzco, Arequipa, and the outskirts of Lima. The “Gran Peste,” as it was called, was a pivotal event about which Arzáns wrote at length because he lived through it, but also because it was believed to have cosmic significance. Kris Lane translates and contextualizes Arzáns’s account, which is rich in local detail that sheds light on a range of topics—from therapeutics, devotional life, class relations, gender, and race to conceptions of illness, sin, and human will and responsibility during a major public health crisis. Original narratives of the pandemic, translated here for the first time, help readers see commonalities and differences between past and present disease encounters. Designed for use in courses on Latin American history, this concise work will also interest scholars and students of the history of religion, history of medicine, urban studies, and epidemiology.

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